ABSTRACT
Made in Italy serves as a comprehensive and rigorous introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contemporary Italian popular music. Each essay, written by a leading scholar of Italian music, covers the major figures, styles, and social contexts of pop music in Italy and provides adequate context so readers understand why the figure or genre under discussion is of lasting significance to Italian popular music. The book first presents a general description of the history and background of popular music, followed by essays organized into thematic sections: Themes; Singer-Songwriters; and Stories.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |12 pages
Introduction
An Egg of Columbus: How Can Italian Popular Music Studies Stand on Their Own?
part |69 pages
Themes
chapter |11 pages
Italy in Music
A Sweeping (and Somewhat Audacious) Reconstruction of a Problematic Identity
part |66 pages
Singer-Songwriters
chapter |13 pages
A Portrait of the Author as an Artist
Ideology, Authenticity, and Stylization in the Canzone d'Autore
chapter |13 pages
Saved Souls
Locating Style in Fabrizio De André's and Ivano Fossati's Record Production
part |58 pages
Stories
part |13 pages
Coda
part |13 pages
Afterword
