Popular music studies have experienced a strange fate in Italy. After a promising beginning in the 1970s and the early 1980s (with the direct contribution by musicians and scholars like Franco Fabbri and Umberto Fiori to the new intellectual formation), a situation of stasis followed. The latter was characterised by the presence of individual important voices but without the support of a constituency strong enough to guarantee in Italy the institutionalisation of this new field of research. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
G. Plastino, M. Santoro (2007). Introduction. The Italian Way(s). A Special issue on Italian popular music. POPULAR MUSIC, 26/3, 385-388.
Introduction. The Italian Way(s). A Special issue on Italian popular music
SANTORO, MARCO
2007
Abstract
Popular music studies have experienced a strange fate in Italy. After a promising beginning in the 1970s and the early 1980s (with the direct contribution by musicians and scholars like Franco Fabbri and Umberto Fiori to the new intellectual formation), a situation of stasis followed. The latter was characterised by the presence of individual important voices but without the support of a constituency strong enough to guarantee in Italy the institutionalisation of this new field of research. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
