Made in Italy studies in popular music - Fabbri, Franco 1949-; Plastino, Goffredo (New York Routledge, 2014)
An egg of Columbus : how can Italian popular music studies stand on their own /Franco Fabbri and Goffredo Plastino -- Italy in music : a sweeping (and somewhat audacious) reconstruction of a problematic identity /Marcello Sorce Keller -- Sanremo effects : the festival and the Italian canzone (1950s-1960s) /Roberto Agostini -- And the bitt went on /Franco Fabbri --Naples power : Neapolitan sounds of the 1970s /Goffredo Plastino -- Music economies and markets in Italy /Francesco D'Amato -- A portrait of the author as an artist : ideology, authenticity and stylization in the canzone d'autore /Jacopo Tomatis -- Canzoni diverse : a semiotic approach to Luigi Tenco's songs /Luca Marconi --You can call them, if you like, emotions : the (un)orthodox songs of Lucio Battisti /Jacopo Conti --Saved souls : locating style in Fabrizio De André's and Ivano Fossati's record production /Errico Pavese -- Mystical arrogance : Franco Battiato's esoteric pop /Alessandro Carrera --An escape from escapism : the short history of Cantacronache /Carlo Pestelli -- Virtuosity and populism : the everlasting appeal of Mina and Celentano /Paolo Prato --In the court of a foreign king : 1970s Italian progressive rock in the UK / Alessandro Bratus -- Radiofreccia : a rocker from Emilia behind the film camera /Elena Boschi -- Killer melodies : the musica neomelodica debate /Vincenzo Perna -- Lasciatemi cantare and other diseases : Italian popular music as represented abroad / Dario Martinelli -- Provisionally popular : a conversation with Ennio Morricone / Franco Fabbri and Goffredo Plastino.
aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 234-240) and index.
Keywords: Popular music -- History and criticism. -- Italy