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Volker Hagedorn: Der Klang von Paris. Eine Reise in die musikalische Metropole des 19. Jahrhunderts. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Verlag, 2019. ISBN 3498030353. 416 Seiten.
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“Le donne, i cavalier, l’arme, gli amori”: lingua e poetica del primo Fabrizio De André
Get PDFThe essay shows how De André, from the very beginning, bases his career as a singer-songwriter on the opposition to the alleged ‘Italian song’ model. Compared to the latter, lighter and more consumeristic, De André presents himself as a minstrel engaged in the choice of themes and attentive to the message. To distinguish himself, De André ‘invents’ his own personal medieval tradition, partly drawn from the French chansonniers, and partly founded on literary sources. At the same time, he succeeds in distinguishing himself from the nascent author song, above all, for its apparently more traditional use of the language, for the sought-after vocabulary, which is often far from being colloquial, and for the recourse to closed metric forms
“’O sole mio” e l’habanera: napoletanità e cosmopolitismo nella prima era della popular music
Get PDF“’O sole mio” is considered the quintessential Neapolitan song, a widely popular musicalicon of ‘Neapolitanness’. And yet, the song also raises questions about the nature of‘Neapolitanness’ in music, as it is based on a habanera pattern, a rhythm originated inCuba which became very popular in Europe in the late XIX century. The article reflectson how music could sound ‘Neapolitan’ (and thus ‘Italian’), and how these features areestablished, observing the case of “’O sole mio” from a cultural historical perspective
Terra Mia, il punto di non ritorno della canzone napoletana
Get PDFPino Daniele has been one of the most important and influential Italian musicians and songwriters of the last forty years. Born and raised in Naples, Pino Daniele gave a new direction to the Neapolitan music and song in the seventies: Neapolitan folkloristic instruments, electric guitars, Neapolitan dialect, American language, Neapolitan melodies and American blues merged into something new.The result was as unexpected as successful: The musical language of the American blues was able to express what the Italian ethnomusicologist Roberto de Simone defines as ‘Neapolitan negritude’ more than any other genre. Pino Daniele became the progenitor of a style called ‘Neapolitan Power’, it’s the beginning of the Neapolitan transcultural song. Therefore, Pino Daniele played a strategic role as a forerunner of this new process of expression and creativity; many other musicians will take his experience into account. In this article, I will underline this using practical examples. First, some historical and sociocultural references will allow us to understand the period in which Pino Danieletook his first steps, then, with the analysis of two songs, I will point out his innovations and his links to the tradition. Finally, I will show how Pino Daniele’s work influenced a large number of young and talented Neapolitan musicians
Il ruolo sociale delle popstar
Get PDFCarrying out a careful sociological analysis of pop music, youth culture and expressive languages, this essay emphasises the social role of pop stars in today’s society. Drawing on cultural studies and research on youth subcultures, the paper considers rap music as a modern way of expressing social issues. In a second step, it seeks to analyse the symbolic power of pop stars and the use of digital technologies that transform the creative process.Pop music as a cultural phenomenon is in perpetual mutation; pop culture represents a locus where social transformations play out. Starting with the Birmingham School of Cultural Studies, sociological approaches to pop music have understood musical phenomena as the product of youth culture and examined the ways in which pop music as a cultural factor contributes to the socialization, the acknowledgment and the development of individual and collective identities.Youth from different generations and contexts identify with pop stars whose social role is particularly relevant. The influence of digital technologies on creative processes, on production methods and on ways of exploiting music, is redefining traditional categories of the interpretation of art as well as the perception of the role of the pop star. At the same time, these affect the social role of the artwork, encompassing both artist and recipient
L’adaptation de chanson dans l’album Coeur vagabond de Bïa. Une brise de Brésil
Get PDFPerle Abbrugiati’s article explores Coeur vagabond/Coraçao vagabundo, the fourth record by the French-Brazilian artist Bïa, released in 2006. The bilingual album comprises an equal number of Brazilian-Portuguese adaptations from French songs and French adaptations from Brazilian songs. The aim of the present article is to identify the strategies applied in the translation of songs. To this end, the article’s author herself uses translation within the framework of a comparative approach, confronting Bïa’s translations with her own literal translations (not suitable to be sung) of the original lyrics. The objective is not to trace ‘mistranslations’ but to point out in how many different and intricate ways a translation can be faithful while being creative, and in what way and to what degree the song translator may take the liberty of ‘re-semantisation’
IAM et Co’Sang : le rap au croisement des cultures marseillaise et napolitaine
Get PDFAlthough the relevance of rap music, especially in France, is well known, the impact on the community remains underestimated. In this work, we will trace the path of two famous groups making the history of hip hop. The first one, IAM – led by the charismatic leader, Akhenaton – is based in Marseille; the second one, Co’Sang (“With the blood”), is based in Naples. Their routes have converged during a featuring for the Co’Sang’s second album song, “Rispettiva ammirazione” (“Mutual admiration”). The analysis of the above-mentioned song will enable authors to establish similarities and differences between the two groups (and the respective urban contexts). Finally, the analysis will focus on the contradictions existing between public declarations, statements and song’s content
