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Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

The image of the bird of passage has been adopted by American historians as a metaphor for immigr... more The image of the bird of passage has been adopted by American historians as a metaphor for immigrants during the epoch of mass immigration at the start of the twentieth century. The theme “returning home” is complex and deserves its own study, one that takes into account the linguistic and formalistic aspects that immigrant musicians borrowed from the American continent. Until now, we have been occupied with the history of Neapolitan immigrant songs, dealing with the work of artists who preferred to spend their careers in America and, in their musical choices, have sometimes shown an interest in the American repertoire. One of our aims has been to find signs of musical syncretism between the immigrant tradition and that of the host country. In this context, it is important to deal with the topic of return to the homeland, at least to some extent, in order to understand fully the concept that underlies the term “bird of passage” and the dynamic of nomadism, which represents the generating principle that justifies the use of that term.

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2017

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

The popular culture that manifests itself in the new media, above all the cinema, has a distinct ... more The popular culture that manifests itself in the new media, above all the cinema, has a distinct character. In America, the twentieth century saw the feminization of products for the emerging mass of consumers.1 Debates arose in different environments on the topic since the fear of a radical change began to spread. For example, scholar Gavin James Campbell emphasizes the substantial difference between the principles of masculinity and femininity that are cultivated in music more than in any other cultural context. He argues that music became one medium by which men and women articulated their anxieties about changing gender roles. He goes as far as to make qualitative judgments of the great composers, such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin, according to the degree of masculinity expressed in their works. The debate touched on topics associated with the battle of the sexes, using arguments that were very advanced for those years. Included in the discussion was the very role of the professional female musician; some of them believed that female musicians should not confine themselves to the performances of music written solely by men but, as the pianist Fanny Bloomfield-Zeisler had already written in 1891, should inspire women to compose music not simply in imitation but based on their their own musical sensibilities.2

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

The last chapter of this study is dedicated to discussing the role of the record industry, a diff... more The last chapter of this study is dedicated to discussing the role of the record industry, a difficult task considering the scarcity of sources. The role of the American record industry is fundamental because the emergence of records at the beginning of the twentieth century helped music move from being folk music to becoming a consumer product. The first record labels, limited to popular material, were considered archival institutions, dedicated to the preservation of music by placing it on a stable, solid medium. Music, then, no longer had to rely on being passed along by oral means only, such as by musical productions that remained in great part primarily folk art in inspiration, vocalization, themes, and instrumental arrangements. But music’s transference onto the disc created a method of diffusion different from the direct transmission of traditional folk music. Above all, however, recorded music gave rise to the wide distribution and internationalization of the repertoire, something that had been unthinkable until then. This aspect transformed folk music into popular music and made possible the birth of a genre that took the name “dance music.” In Italy, the term was translated as “ballabili,” and this music spread the African-Latin-American repertoire to local, deeply rooted traditional repertoires such as the Neapolitan.

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, the foremost entertainment publication in the... more During the first decades of the nineteenth century, the foremost entertainment publication in the Italian language on the east coast of the United States was La Follia di New York, a weekly devoted to humor and varying in size from eight to fourteen pages. The newspaper’s masthead depicted the face of a woman against the background of skyscrapers, and the woman wore a ribbon on her head on which was written the Latin phrase “castigat ridendo mores” (one corrects customs through laughter). The newspaper was founded in 1893 by Francesco Sisca and his sons Alessandro (the director who went by the pseudonym Riccardo Cordiferro) and Marziale, the editor-in-chief.1 The newspaper office was located at 169 Mott Street in Manhattan.

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, the foremost entertainment publication in the... more During the first decades of the nineteenth century, the foremost entertainment publication in the Italian language on the east coast of the United States was La Follia di New York, a weekly devoted to humor and varying in size from eight to fourteen pages. The newspaper’s masthead depicted the face of a woman against the background of skyscrapers, and the woman wore a ribbon on her head on which was written the Latin phrase “castigat ridendo mores” (one corrects customs through laughter). The newspaper was founded in 1893 by Francesco Sisca and his sons Alessandro (the director who went by the pseudonym Riccardo Cordiferro) and Marziale, the editor-in-chief.1 The newspaper office was located at 169 Mott Street in Manhattan.

Rivista Italiana Di Musicologia, 2018

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

riflessioni semiserie sui canoni osceni di Mozart, pubblicato in volume miscellaneo

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

The image of the bird of passage has been adopted by American historians as a metaphor for immigr... more The image of the bird of passage has been adopted by American historians as a metaphor for immigrants during the epoch of mass immigration at the start of the twentieth century. The theme “returning home” is complex and deserves its own study, one that takes into account the linguistic and formalistic aspects that immigrant musicians borrowed from the American continent. Until now, we have been occupied with the history of Neapolitan immigrant songs, dealing with the work of artists who preferred to spend their careers in America and, in their musical choices, have sometimes shown an interest in the American repertoire. One of our aims has been to find signs of musical syncretism between the immigrant tradition and that of the host country. In this context, it is important to deal with the topic of return to the homeland, at least to some extent, in order to understand fully the concept that underlies the term “bird of passage” and the dynamic of nomadism, which represents the generating principle that justifies the use of that term.

Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2017

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

The popular culture that manifests itself in the new media, above all the cinema, has a distinct ... more The popular culture that manifests itself in the new media, above all the cinema, has a distinct character. In America, the twentieth century saw the feminization of products for the emerging mass of consumers.1 Debates arose in different environments on the topic since the fear of a radical change began to spread. For example, scholar Gavin James Campbell emphasizes the substantial difference between the principles of masculinity and femininity that are cultivated in music more than in any other cultural context. He argues that music became one medium by which men and women articulated their anxieties about changing gender roles. He goes as far as to make qualitative judgments of the great composers, such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin, according to the degree of masculinity expressed in their works. The debate touched on topics associated with the battle of the sexes, using arguments that were very advanced for those years. Included in the discussion was the very role of the professional female musician; some of them believed that female musicians should not confine themselves to the performances of music written solely by men but, as the pianist Fanny Bloomfield-Zeisler had already written in 1891, should inspire women to compose music not simply in imitation but based on their their own musical sensibilities.2

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

The last chapter of this study is dedicated to discussing the role of the record industry, a diff... more The last chapter of this study is dedicated to discussing the role of the record industry, a difficult task considering the scarcity of sources. The role of the American record industry is fundamental because the emergence of records at the beginning of the twentieth century helped music move from being folk music to becoming a consumer product. The first record labels, limited to popular material, were considered archival institutions, dedicated to the preservation of music by placing it on a stable, solid medium. Music, then, no longer had to rely on being passed along by oral means only, such as by musical productions that remained in great part primarily folk art in inspiration, vocalization, themes, and instrumental arrangements. But music’s transference onto the disc created a method of diffusion different from the direct transmission of traditional folk music. Above all, however, recorded music gave rise to the wide distribution and internationalization of the repertoire, something that had been unthinkable until then. This aspect transformed folk music into popular music and made possible the birth of a genre that took the name “dance music.” In Italy, the term was translated as “ballabili,” and this music spread the African-Latin-American repertoire to local, deeply rooted traditional repertoires such as the Neapolitan.

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, the foremost entertainment publication in the... more During the first decades of the nineteenth century, the foremost entertainment publication in the Italian language on the east coast of the United States was La Follia di New York, a weekly devoted to humor and varying in size from eight to fourteen pages. The newspaper’s masthead depicted the face of a woman against the background of skyscrapers, and the woman wore a ribbon on her head on which was written the Latin phrase “castigat ridendo mores” (one corrects customs through laughter). The newspaper was founded in 1893 by Francesco Sisca and his sons Alessandro (the director who went by the pseudonym Riccardo Cordiferro) and Marziale, the editor-in-chief.1 The newspaper office was located at 169 Mott Street in Manhattan.

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

During the first decades of the nineteenth century, the foremost entertainment publication in the... more During the first decades of the nineteenth century, the foremost entertainment publication in the Italian language on the east coast of the United States was La Follia di New York, a weekly devoted to humor and varying in size from eight to fourteen pages. The newspaper’s masthead depicted the face of a woman against the background of skyscrapers, and the woman wore a ribbon on her head on which was written the Latin phrase “castigat ridendo mores” (one corrects customs through laughter). The newspaper was founded in 1893 by Francesco Sisca and his sons Alessandro (the director who went by the pseudonym Riccardo Cordiferro) and Marziale, the editor-in-chief.1 The newspaper office was located at 169 Mott Street in Manhattan.

Rivista Italiana Di Musicologia, 2018

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

Italian Birds of Passage, 2014

riflessioni semiserie sui canoni osceni di Mozart, pubblicato in volume miscellaneo

Mixed by Erry , 2023

The book [publ. by Ad est dell'equatore, Naples , pp. 254 plus full color photos] ] analyzes the ... more The book [publ. by Ad est dell'equatore, Naples , pp. 254 plus full color photos] ] analyzes the case of the Mixed by Erry brand created in Naples by the Frattasio brothers in the late 1970s as a totally illegal business model. The brand has been responsible for more than 25 years of a flow of sales of 40,000 fake music cassettes a day by flouting the legal provisions relating to the protection of copyright. Producers and creators of a specific musical aesthetic (mash-ups, parodies and turntablism), the Frattasio family is recognized as benefactors because they provide work, good economic treatment, legal and health assistance to individuals who work for the brand and their families. The success of the pirated cassettes produced in Naples places this area of the Mediterranean in a wider process of globalization alongside Bulgaria, India, China, sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil. These areas shared the practice of counterfeiting, the most modern technologies to implement it and the birth of a new awareness of making music before the spread of the file sharing practice. This research is the subject of the movie Mixed by Erry directed by Sydney Sibilia [2023, Rai Cinema/Netflix].
The book is available on www.adestdellequatore.com/shop/mixed-by-erry/; traditional and digital bookshops

More than any other regional repertoire, Neapolitan song defined the Italian popular music tradit... more More than any other regional repertoire, Neapolitan song defined the Italian popular music tradition. From international celebrities like Enrico Caruso to the most middling small-town vedette, Neapolitan musicians transcended local identity and attracted new audiences by abandoning the operatic tendencies of Italian song, introducing new subjects, and embracing new musical trends like the foxtrot, blues, and tango. In this way, they helped to create one of the first modern examples of a truly transnational musical style. This lively history spans the years from Italian unification to the fascist regime of the early twentieth century to trace the transformation of songs written in regional dialect into a wildly popular art form recognized around the world. As author Simona Frasca shows, the Neapolitan song tradition benefited from serendipitous historical circumstances: although they were forced to join the mass migration of Italians to New York and other American urban centres between 1880 and 1920, Neapolitan musicians managed to maintain strong ties with the art form's origins in Italy. By marrying a strong sense of tradition with an openness to new forms, these musicians helped to present a distinct form of 'Italianness' to the world even as they participated, along with other ethnic groups, to the production of 'American' identity.

An inteview to the famous group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Bli... more An inteview to the famous group of Italian authors formed in 2000 from a subset of the Luther Blissett community in Bologna

LOCALI QUASI DESERTI, PUBBLICO DISTRATTO, CACHET PRESSOCHÉ INESISTENTI...

reportage sulla musica del paese del sud est asiatico

a memoire from Irving Plaza show, New York City [14/6/2003]

a conversation with to Handsome Dick Manitoba [8/02/2003]

an interview [Alias, 3/01/2004]

Avvenimenti più recenti hanno collocato l’Italia intera ai poli opposti della dicotomia Nord Sud.... more Avvenimenti più recenti hanno collocato l’Italia intera ai poli opposti della dicotomia Nord Sud. La crisi economica e istituzionale tra il 2008 e il 2011 ha visto il Bel Paese ancora una volta rappresentato come Sud d’Europa, tra le nazioni poco “virtuose” e “arretrate”. Allo stesso tempo, le migrazioni hanno riportato il Mediterraneo al centro dell’attenzione del dibattito pubblico continentale, dove l’Italia assume un ruolo di frontiera, settentrionale o meridionale a seconda del punto di vista.
Il convegno intende riflettere sul tema del dualismo Nord-Sud come costruzione di senso che struttura l’identità nazionale italiana, ma anche sulle opere, le teorie e i metodi che sfidano e superano tale impostazione.

FINAL PROGRAM, Palermo 22-26 maggio 2017

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L’ “altra” Gilda: le canzoni di Gilda Mignonette dedicate a Rodolfo Valentino

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Enrico Caruso - Da divo del palcoscenico a star della comunicazione di massa

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Uso della voce riprodotta su disco

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ENRICO CARUSO E L'AMBIENTE MUSICALE DEGLI EMIGRATI ITALIANI A NEW YORK Enrico Caruso fu una delle... more ENRICO CARUSO E L'AMBIENTE MUSICALE DEGLI EMIGRATI ITALIANI A NEW YORK
Enrico Caruso fu una delle figure di spicco della comunità italiana in America. Partito come interprete d’opera, a New York divenne un attento e curioso sostenitore dei nuovi mezzi di comunicazione di massa. Intuì che le nuove tecnologie quali il fonografo e il cinematografo avrebbero contribuito ad accrescere esponenzialmente la diffusione della musica, non solo quella lirica, attraverso cui veicolare un’immagine positiva e costruttiva dell’italiano emigrato.
La sua assidua frequentazione degli ambienti di Little Italy a Manhattan dava infatti fiducia a quanti nutrivano quel desiderio di emancipazione sociale che passava anche attraverso l’emulazione di italiani eroici diventati famosi all’estero come Umberto Nobile, Primo Carnera, Rodolfo Valentino. Caruso, che si dichiarava “emigrante” alla stregua di molti suoi compatrioti, era l’esempio da seguire per l’italiano che voleva superare lo scarto culturale che lo relegava al ruolo di emigrante sfaccendato, mangiaspaghetti e incline al crimine.
Il tenore contribuì a galvanizzare l’ambiente della colonia italiana a New York, già molto effervescente, con disegni, caricature, aneddoti, incisioni di canzoni napoletane, prestando il suo volto per pubblicizzare prodotti come pasta e olio. Caruso fu un catalizzatore capace di raccogliere ed amplificare l’enorme potenziale culturale esistente. Se nell’ambiente esclusivo del Metropolitan Opera House in qualità di primo interprete de La Fanciulla del West scriveva il seguito della storia dell’opera italiana moderna, nel contesto “basso” della ‘gebrauchsmusik’ degli emigrati contribuiva, con l’utilizzo delle nuove tecnologie, a condurre la canzonetta napoletana nell’ambito dei repertori popolari urbani in un contesto extra e trans-nazionale.
La sua vicenda rappresenta in definitiva una fase inedita della vita sociale dell’uomo occidentale. Gli anni in cui egli è attivo sono infatti anche quelli nei quali nasce un nuovo modo di ascoltare la musica. Il primo stadio dell’industria della musica riprodotta raggiunge uno dei suo momenti più significativi proprio quando l’etichetta Victor Talking Machine scrittura il tenore napoletano che si appresta così a diventare una vera e propria ‘stella’ dell’opera italiana, creando il primo fenomeno di divismo musicale dell’era discografica.

REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ITALIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY THROUGH ITS MUSIC My paper consists of some mu... more REPRESENTATIONS OF THE ITALIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY THROUGH ITS MUSIC

My paper consists of some musical examples deriving from the Italian repertoire and transformed by Italian Americans, concentrating on the symbolic relationship that Italian Americans constructed with their motherland through music. I trace a theoretical framework for interpreting that music in the historical-sociological context of Italian Americans.

By follow the expressive cultural products, specifically the musics of Italian Americans, I track the forward-looking desires and the backward-looking nostalgias that make up what Raymond Williams called the “structures of feeling” which, in turn, fuel identity formations of the Italian community in the US and an important exchange between the two countries.

http://www.socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/109736

Neapolitan popular song between Localism and Globalization

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Representations of the Italian American Community through its music

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La fortuna di E. A. Mario in America

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Migrazione e sincretismi musicali Il fenomeno dell’emigrazione italiana lascia una traccia prof... more Migrazione e sincretismi musicali

Il fenomeno dell’emigrazione italiana lascia una traccia profonda nella musica. In questo contesto vengono registrate le trasformazioni che riguardano la nascente fisionomia della comunità di emigrati.
La prima fase di assimilazione dei nuovi canoni musicali da parte dei performer emigrati segna l’emergere di un repertorio che contempla gli aspetti strutturali tipici della canzone/romanza italiana assieme a quelli più caratteristici dei repertori americani, come, ad esempio, un più pronunciato utilizzo del parametro ritmico. Gli anni che conducono alla seconda guerra mondiale rappresentano una cesura evidente all’interno della comunità che comincia a perdere i legami affettivi con i repertori popolari della terra d’origine in maniera irreversibile.
Qui presento alcuni esempi musicali derivati dal repertorio italiano dialettale poi divenuto italo-americano, concentrando l’attenzione sulla relazione simbolica che la comunità stessa ha costruito con il paese d’origine attraverso la musica. La cornice che si delinea permette di interpretare questi repertori nel contesto sociale e storico nel quale si muovono gli emigrati italiani anche in relazione alle altre minoranze etniche che condividono con quella italiana le modalità di ridefinizione e ricollocazione della loro storia culturale.

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La musica come linguaggio dell'emigrazione italiana

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Per un monumento sonoro al Musico Ignoto Giovanni Martini, trombettiere del 7° Cavalleggeri del ... more Per un monumento sonoro al Musico Ignoto

Giovanni Martini, trombettiere del 7° Cavalleggeri del generale Custer, fervente garibaldino di Sala Consilina, partì da Glasgow e emigrò come molti italiani in America in cerca di miglior fortuna. Egli è il rappresentante di una storia complessa, a lungo rimossa ma che aggiunge nuovi e importanti elementi alla costruzione dell'identità nazionale dell'Italia post-risorgimentale.
Qui la figura di Martini diventa il simbolo dell'emigrazione, una realtà che coinvolse prepotentemente i musicisti italiani del Sud così come altre figure professionali provenienti da quella parte d'Italia. La trattazione storica e sociale del personaggio e dell'epoca si alterna con la lettura di alcuni passi in decime che consentono un andamento prosastico e lirico insieme e che si adatta perfettamente al tono a tratti picaresco dell'intera vicenda del musico trombettiere emigrato.

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Songs in transit: a social narrative through musical grafting in the Neapolitan repertoire The N... more Songs in transit: a social narrative through musical grafting in the Neapolitan repertoire

The Neapolitan song—as a site of contact and convergence between the diverse cultures and civilizations of the Mediterranean—has always been the meeting ground of engaging narratives in transit. By virtue of this, the identity dimension of Naples is of spontaneous integration and constant observation of the foreigner. Singing in Neapolitan dialect has become a national cultural expression and, through the vocal style and manner of local production, it has contributed to recount the experience of a country turning into a nation [1880-1920], then a nation throwing into the colonial experiences [1890-1940s] and today a Mediterranean region preparing its personal way of meeting the Islamic world. So that, the practice of inclusion and appropriation of stories resulting in the relationship with the traveller, is a model that we know to be practiced yesterday and today.
In this paper I will observe the phenomenon of Neapolitan song as a narrative through excerpts from the repertory of the Italian diaspora, colonial propaganda and that contemporary one emerging in contact with the Muslim community. In all three cases chosen, the city has expressed strong identity. In the perspective of meeting the foreigner or traveller, Naples counts a path of self-expression through music as a form of behavior, and –as evidenced by Norton H. Fried and Marcello Sorce Keller— this form of behavior often becomes symbol and metaphor for other [not musical] aspects of the socio-economic life.

Routes of the Neapolitan song in the United States and South America

“MEDITERRANEAN WAVE—Music, Women, and Ethnicity” Southern Italian folk or popular music repertori... more “MEDITERRANEAN WAVE—Music, Women, and Ethnicity” Southern Italian folk or popular music repertories constantly reflect migratory movements: the migration from the countryside to the city, from the south to the north, and to foreign countries. This paper emphasizes this constant exchange of stimuli through several female voices from the past (Gilda Mignonette) and the present (from Assurd to Maria Nazionale).These voices mirror the intertwining of Mediterranean musical languages, languages charged with meaning and history of the contemporary age. Their songs constantly redraw transnational space—an elastic space which adopts the shape and dynamics of the exchange and denies the static nuances of ethnicity—as “home” [Chambers].

Nell'ambito dei corsi in Archeologia, Storia delle Arti e Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale e Disc... more Nell'ambito dei corsi in Archeologia, Storia delle Arti e Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale e Discipline della Musica e dello Spettacolo. Storia e Teoria del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici dopo le conversazioni al Museo Archeologico di Napoli MANN per la mostra Enrico Caruso, da Napoli a New York, un secondo ciclo di incontri organizzato dalla cattedra di Etnomusicologia della Prof.ssa Simona Frasca esplora le molteplici combinazioni del mondo dei suoni del nostro presente con uno sguardo rivolto all'apporto della nostra città anche nello specifico di altri linguaggi.

MUSICA E SUONI NEI CONTESTI URBANI E NEGLI AMBIENTI NATURALI, TRE INCONTRI TRA RICERCA E DIVULGAZIONE
La cattedra di Etnomusicologia propone nel mese di maggio tre incontri a cura della Prof.ssa Simona Frasca con studiosi italiani e stranieri provenienti da vari ambiti umanistici e scientifici per incoraggiare il dialogo multidisciplinare e illustrare i differenti campi di ricerca e applicazione del mondo dei suoni nei contesti dell’esistere contemporaneo.
In apertura del ciclo di incontri, la Prof.ssa Anna Masecchia, coordinatrice del corso di Laurea in DISCIPLINE DELLA MUSICA E DELLO SPETTACOLO. STORIA E TEORIA, rivolgerà un saluto di benvenuto ai presenti.
Martedì 3 maggio, 13.00 Rosario Balestrieri, ornitologo e divulgatore, Presidente Ass. Ardea e post - Doc Stazione Zoologica di Napoli Anton Dohrn, "Etnozoologia: il canto degli uccelli", Aula A3
Lunedì 9 maggio, 12.30 Chiara Macor, Emanuele Parascandolo, Chiara Imparato, Pako Massimo dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli "La musica nel sangue, graphic novel su Alessandro e Domenico Scarlatti" (ed. Guida per l'Associazione Alessandro Scarlatti), Aula A6
Lunedì 16 maggio, 12.30 Jason Pine, antropologo presso Purchase College, State University of New York, "Napoli sotto traccia. Musica neomelodica e marginalità sociale", Aula A6

Gli incontri si terranno nelle aule indicate della sede del Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici in Via Marina 33

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Orchestra Scarlatti plays "Birds of Passage", a journey through Italian music, migrations and tec... more Orchestra Scarlatti plays "Birds of Passage", a journey through Italian music, migrations and technology in the early 20th century

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ciclo di lezioni sulla canzone italiana negli anni della riproduzione discografica in rapporto al... more ciclo di lezioni sulla canzone italiana negli anni della riproduzione discografica in rapporto alla storia sociale del paese e all'evoluzione del linguaggio musicale

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ciclo di lezioni sulla musica nella trilogia di Kubrick: Arancia Meccanica, 2001: Odissea nello s... more ciclo di lezioni sulla musica nella trilogia di Kubrick: Arancia Meccanica, 2001: Odissea nello spazio, Barry Lyndon

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Ciclo di lezioni sul jazz e i suoi esponenti sulle due coste degli Stati Uniti

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Napoli e la sua canzone come racconto sociale (5 maggio 2016)

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Passione: alcune riflessioni sulla canzone napoletana del Novecento con l'esecuzione di alcuni br... more Passione: alcune riflessioni sulla canzone napoletana del Novecento con l'esecuzione di alcuni brani del repertorio a cura di Francesca Rondinella e Giosi Cincotti

una lettura tratta dal libro Birds of Passage [Lim, 2010]

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“Avremo anche in America la caratteristica festa di Piedigrotta. Essa avrà luogo nei giorni 7 e 8... more “Avremo anche in America la caratteristica festa di Piedigrotta. Essa avrà luogo nei giorni 7 e 8 settembre all’Harlem River Park, che è alle 126 strade e Seconda Ave., col concorso di canzoni napoletane, per le quali sono stati fissati tre premi: il primo di 40,ilsecondodi40, il secondo di 40,ilsecondodi25 e il terzo di $15…” Queste ed altre sono le voci della stampa italiana in America relative alla nostra canzone durante i primi anni del Novecento.
Piedigrotta, ma non solo, la Festa dei Gigli, Enrico Caruso, Mergellina e il Vesuvio sono chiusi gelosamente nella valigia del musicista emigrante all'arrivo in America.
L'impatto con il jazz nascente, i grattacieli, le flapper come Betty Boop e poi il feroce pregiudizio nei confronti dell’emigrante è in alcuni casi inebriante in altri doloroso ma inevitabile e costituisce la realtà con cui da subito l’italiano fa i conti. Da questo contatto, quasi come un rito di passaggio, emerge la figura dell’italoamericano e la musica è qui a rievocare quell’esperienza fondamentale per il successivo corso della musica americana. Frank Sinatra e Dean Martin, Liberace, i gruppi doowop come Dion and the Belmonts avrebbero conosciuto tutta un’altra storia senza quella valigia.

Napoli. Dal Mediterraneo all'Atlantico, la nuova geografia della città

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Sommario 1. Origini del repertorio nazionale: locale-globale, Napoli la prima esperienza di music... more Sommario
1. Origini del repertorio nazionale: locale-globale, Napoli la prima esperienza di musica di consumo nazionale
2. L’emigrazione come prima esperienza transnazionale
3. Il beat e il rock: repertori a confronto
4. La canzone d’autore e di protesta
5. La musica colta incontra il repertorio popular
6. Le voci femminili, breve excursus dall’origine dell’era discografica ad oggi

Ilegal market, alternative popular culture and contact zones in Jason Pine's "The art of making d... more Ilegal market, alternative popular culture and contact zones in Jason Pine's "The art of making do in Naples"

Mark Rotella's "Amore" for Enrico Caruso, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and all the wild (Italian) b... more Mark Rotella's "Amore" for Enrico Caruso, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and all the wild (Italian) bunch in the USA

Davide Morganti's "Tre volte dieci", a fiction on Diego Armando Maradona

la (vera) storia di Amelia, la strega che ammalia sui boschi innevati del Vesuvio nel ricordo di ... more la (vera) storia di Amelia, la strega che ammalia sui boschi innevati del Vesuvio nel ricordo di Das Blaue Licht di Leni Riefensthal, tratto dall'antologia di racconti Una Mano sul Volto a cura di Maurizio De Giovanni [Napoli, 2015]

una fiction horror-urbana ascoltando i Big Star, tratto dalla raccolta di racconti Fuoco sulla Ci... more una fiction horror-urbana ascoltando i Big Star, tratto dalla raccolta di racconti Fuoco sulla Città in memoria dell'incendio di Città della Scienza avvenuto il 4 marzo 2013 [Napoli 2013]