# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/diego-carpitella
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:48:07.311Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/diego-carpitella"
name: "Diego Carpitella"
slug: "diego-carpitella"
description: "Diego Carpitella was an Italian professor of ethnomusicology at D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara and La Sapienza University in Rome. He is considered one of the greatest scholars of Italian folk music and has written and published many essays on the subject. He collaborated with the Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare from 1952 to 1958, collecting more than 5,000 Italian folk songs. He was also the founding editor of the journal Culture musicali and a co-founder of the cultural magazine Marcatre."
tagline: "Italian musician (1924-1990)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Italy"
  isoCode: "IT"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1924-06-12"
deathDate: "1990-08-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.60918
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%88_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%BE%D9%8A%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7"
    title: "ديجو كارپيتيلا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Carpitella"
    title: "Diego Carpitella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Carpitella"
    title: "Diego Carpitella"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Carpitella"
    title: "Diego Carpitella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Carpitella"
    title: "Diego Carpitella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Carpitella"
    title: "Diego Carpitella"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/83c45385-32f1-46af-9e23-62afc7bcec6a"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3707151"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump