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These currents led to a real movement at the end of the 1990s in South Italy, which sees itself as a counter movement to general cultural homogenisation and globalisation, and which is in search of cultural roots and an identity of its own.

Older artists from the folk scene of the 1970s and younger artists whose experience reaches as far as electronic music, as well as dancers and ethno-choreographers, have started to travel the same road both independently and together rediscovering the music and the dances of the tarantella, upgrading it and bringing it to a broader public.

The accent is put on its local-cultural identity, so that the Tarantella is already considered a local showpiece phenomenon