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Immagini e suoni di Milano nella canzone d’autore italiana
Get PDFSince the late 1950s Milan appears in many Italian songs: from the outskirts portrayed in the songs by Jannacci, Gaber, and Celentano, to the center, which appears in four songs from the mid-1960s, the city epitomizes the country’s contradictions during the years of the economic boom. The melancholic feeling of the French song meets the American rock and roll, but in Italian popular music the propensity to escape from the frenzy still prevails until the 1970s, when the characteristic attributes of Milan (fog, greyness) – until then seen as the objective correlative of the singer’s romantic attitude as an outsider – begin to be interpreted in a positive way (Finardi, Fortis). Even the alienation of immigrants can look funny
Dario Martinelli: Give Peace a Chant. Popular Music, Politics, Social Protest. Berlin/New York: Springer, 2017. ISBN 978-331950538-1. 184 pages.
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La parlèsia: un’indagine sociolinguistica sul gergo dei musicisti napoletani
Get PDFSpoken in the nineteenth century by the posteggiatori, the wandering minstrels of Naples, parlèsia is a jargon. It shares its syntax and its phonology with the Neapolitan dialect and is characterized by a special lexicon of about 200 words, referring above all to money, women, and music. Parlèsia has been a secret code until the 1950s when Neapolitan pop artists used expressions of the jargon in their music. The results of a sociolinguistic investigation conducted among 150 musicians in Naples demonstrate that parlèsia is still being understood and spoken although today it seems more like a form of youth slang than a code of a marginalised group of speakers
Innate talent in sport: Separating myth from reality
Get PDFTwenty years ago, Howe, Davidson and Sloboda (1998) provided a state of the science review of innate talent. This paper was extremely influential although much has changed in the two decades since it was published. In this review, we revisit Howe et al’s assessment and discuss current research on innate talent in sport, a domain that was largely ignored in the original review. After re-evaluating Howe et al’s criteria for innate talent we conclude that with the exception of criterion 5 (i.e., talent is domain specific), these criteria are still useful in the context of existing evidence in sport. We subsequently examine two complementary issues: Is the concept of innate talent valid? Does the concept have any utility? We conclude the concept of innate talent is valid but currently has limited utility to those working in high performance sport. We highlight several areas of future research that will ultimately inform the value of innate talent to those working at the frontlines of athlete development
Causes for professionalization in national sport federations in Switzerland: a multiple-case study
Get PDFAim and design: This study explores causes for professionalization in Swiss national sport federations (NSFs). We conducted a multiple-case study employing a qualitative approach with interviews and documents from seven NSFs. A three-level framework guided the analysis in distinguishing NSF endogenous causes, and causes in their external and internal environment.Results: Causes for professionalization were widely similar in the NSFs. Conflicts on the board, unclear decision-making competences and initiatives of key persons have prominently triggered professionalization, particularly for differentiation of strategic boards and executive headquarters, specialization and paid staff. The Swiss government, Swiss Olympic Association and sponsors (external environment) have brought about considerable adaptations in NSFs’ strategies, accountability issues and commercialization, whereas expectations of NSFs’ member organizations (internal environment) have had little impact on their professionalization in general. Rather, the NSFs view them as necessities they themselves do not perceive. Our analysis revealed additional NSF-specific factors (e.g., popularity, financial resources, attitude of individuals towards professionalization) that have an impact on pace and continuity of the process once it has been initiated.Conclusion: Our analysis is a first step towards understanding the professionalization process in Swiss NSFs. Referring to the similar causes for professionalization, uncertainty and competing for resources may have led some NSFs to mimic those NSFs they deem successful, leading to similar conditions that call for professionalization (e.g., with respect to workload and internal expectations). Respective networks between motivated people in the NSFs and stakeholders could support a deliberate professionalization. NSF endogenous and NSF external causes for professionalization seem to be reciprocal. This should be considered more specifically in the analysis of professionalization in NSFs. Single-case studies would be useful to understand the mechanisms and eventual phases more clearly, to identify eventual barriers and avoid unintended consequences to, finally, support NSFs’ professionalization in an efficient manner
« La musique creuse le lit du texte » : Musique et langage dans Votre Faust d’Henri Pousseur et Michel Butor.
Get PDFVotre Faust is an opera composed by Michel Butor and Henri Pousseur. This article will show how language and music interact in this opera. Votre Faust redefines the relations between text and music since language is not only part of the dialogue between the actors: musicians and singers, too, have words to say. There is a continuum between music and language – with language being sometimes used because of its sonorities, beyond understanding, whereas music can pass a message.
Negociaciones (trans)culturales en el Mediterráneo. Inmigración y ‘clandestinidad’ en la música popular española contemporánea
Get PDFFor many decades, Spain has been a country of emigration. Its transformation to a country of immigration (e.g. from Latin America and Africa) is a quite recent phenomenon, which only started in the 1970s due to the economic upturn of the country. From 1991 onwards (signing of the Schengen Agreement) the ‘illegal’ immigration across the Strait of Gibraltar has increasingly been perceived as a problem.Spanish popular music is a fine seismograph of social changes, such as the increase of immigration. The first musical productions reflecting on (‘illegal’) immigration date from the early 1990s, such as Barricada’s “Oveja negra”, El Chojín’s “Ponte en mi piel” and “Sí, Buana”, or Nach’s “Tierra prometida”. Based on a corpus of 50 songs of different musical styles (rock, rap, world music), this article aims at investigating the key thematic lines in songs about ‘illegal’ immigration: the subalternity of the migratory subject; the fraught relations between the migrant subject (‘I’) and the Spanish ‘you’, relations characterized by prejudice, racism, and exclusion; finally, the perspective of a ‘we’ in a transcultural Spanish society
“El corazón de la afición está contigo”: un acercamiento lingüístico-discursivo a los himnos oficiales de fútbol catalanófonos, lusófonos e hispanófonos en la Península Ibérica
Get PDFBased on the analysis of Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan anthems of football clubs, this article demonstrates the way Iberian football clubs construct collective identities in a linguistically discursive manner. With special regard to the use of toponyms and quantifiers in this field of text music, the Catalan discourse community of the Iberoromania differs from the Castilian discourses in central, southern, and northern Spain. For the most part, however, the analysis that is predominantly conducted in a text-centric and discourse-linguistic way shows convergences in the use of lexical fields such as war or virtue as well as personal and possessive pronouns in the anthems of all three languages. This result underscores the similarities between the Portuguese and Spanish discourse communities, the latter being extended by means of the Catalan region.