Made in Italy: Studies in Popular Music

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Series Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: An Egg of Columbus: How Can Italian Popular Music Studies Stand on Their Own?
Part I: Themes
	1 Italy in Music: A Sweeping (and Somewhat Audacious) Reconstruction of a Problematic Identity
	2 Sanremo Effects: The Festival and the Italian Canzone (1950s–1960s)
	3 And the Bitt Went On
	4 Naples Power: Neapolitan Sounds of the 1970s
	5 Music Economies and Markets in Italy
Part II: Singer-Songwriters
	6 A Portrait of the Author as an Artist: Ideology, Authenticity, and Stylization in the Canzone d’Autore
	7 Canzoni Diverse: A Semiotic Approach to Luigi Tenco’s Songs
	8 You Can Call Them, If You Like, Emotions: The (Un)Orthodox Songs of Lucio Battisti
	9 Saved Souls: Locating Style in Fabrizio De André’s and Ivano Fossati’s Record Production
	10 Mystical Arrogance: Franco Battiato’s Esoteric Pop
Part III: Stories
	11 An Escape from Escapism: The Short History of Cantacronache
	12 Virtuosity and Populism: The Everlasting Appeal of Mina and Celentano
	13 In the Court of a Foreign King: 1970s Italian Progressive Rock in the UK
	14 Radiofreccia: A Rocker from Emilia behind the Film Camera
	15 Killer Melodies: The Musica Neomelodica Debate
Coda
	16 Lasciatemi Cantare and Other Diseases: Italian Popular Music, as Represented Abroad
Afterword
	17 Provisionally Popular: A Conversation with Ennio Morricone
A Selected Bibliography on Italian Popular Music
Notes on Contributors
Index