ETNOMUSICOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL LANGUAGES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

MM5061

Academic Year of enrolment:

2016

Year of supply:

2018/2019

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

Ethnomusicology

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

BULTRIGHINI Umberto

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

114

Objectives

Learning Objectives
Knowledge of the main dynamics of the history of popular song (“Mass song”), its particular forms of production and the interaction between market strategies and forms of universal reception of the musical product. Acquisition of awareness of the deep historical dimension of the application of the music/words coupling.
Exercise and development of the ability to critically analyse and compare cases of mass production and their genesis, and to supply clear and exhaustive communication thereof.

Contents

Popular song (“Mass song”) and its relationships with the collective imagination in the 20th century

Extended Syllabus

Analysis, from a musical, philological, historical and social viewpoint, of the interaction between popular song texts and collective imagination, with special reference to the deep changes of the key Sixties-Seventies period. The course will be introduced by an outline of the history of the music-text relationship from Greek antiquity to the contemporary age.

Recommended Bibliography

- U. BULTRIGHINI, Comunicazione diretta e comunicazione indiretta. Parole e note nella dinamica della ricezione musicale di massa. Il caso dei Sixties, in Teatro e Musica. Incontri, percorsi, prospettive, edited by Elisabetta Fazzini and Giorgio Grimaldi, Milano, LED Editore, 2015. (downloadable from http://www.ledonline.it/Il-Segno-le-Lettere/allegati/762-Ricerche-Prospe...)
- U. BULTRIGHINI, Evoluzione e involuzione:la concezione della donna nella canzone italiana del Novecento, in Donna nella storia. Realtà e rappresentazione dall’antico al contemporaneo, edited by Elisabetta Dimauro, Carabba Editrice, Lanciano 2016, pp. 159-200 (info@editricecarabba.it).
- U. BULTRIGHINI-C. SCARPA-G. GUGLIELMI, Al di qua, al di là del beat. Radici e dinamiche del beat italiano: le voci di tre testimoni, Prefazione di D. SALVATORI, Carabba Editrice, Lanciano 2011 (info@editricecarabba.it).
- F. LIPERI, Storia della canzone italiana, NUOVA EDIZIONE, RAI-ERI, Roma 2017 (rai-eri@rai.it), or: G. BORGNA, Storia della canzone italiana, Oscar Saggi Mondadori 1994.
- U. BULTRIGHINI-G. OLIVA (edited by), Dopo i Beatles. Musica e società negli anni Settanta, Carabba Editrice, Lanciano 2003 (info@editricecarabba.it).

Materials related to the subjects dealt with will be downloadable from the University website at the end of the course.

Note
The above reference texts constitute the exam programme for both attending and non-attending students, together with any material downloadable from the University website. It is further pointed out that any presumed unavailability of texts is unacceptable, since the site address where they can be found is supplied.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

Conventional

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam with final marks.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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