Popular Music Studies in Italy: A Historical/Political Overview

• Authors: Fabbri Franco
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Courses on popular music were sparsely introduced in Italian universities in the late 1900s – early 2000s, and are still included under the umbrellas of other disciplines (ethnomusicology, media and communication studies, sociology). An official disciplinary sector including popular music does not exist. However, research on popular music has existed in Italy at least since the 1960s, two important international conferences took place in Italy (as early as in 1983, and in 2005), and Italian popular music scholars are known internationally and have been members of associations, editorial boards, scientific committees. To explain this contradiction, a long historical period has to be overviewed. It’s a very specific Italian story. Or maybe not.

Keywords

EN

Italian popular music, Popular music studies, history of popular music research

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 7. Hitchcock - rozchylanie kurtyny / Badanie muzyki popularnej
• Pages: 225-236

Contributors

author

Fabbri Franco

• Department of Computer Science, University of Milan

Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/zk.2020.7.10