La musica folk. Storie, protagonisti e documenti del revival in Italia
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 223890-68299-1300
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- il Saggiatore
- ISBN
- 9788842818540
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- Published in the prestigious Il Saggiatore La Cultura series, this 1282-page essay is a very ambitious compendium of information and thinking pertaining to the Italian folk revival; it stems from several years of research activity. It is the first to address the Italian folk music revival, one of the most lively and significant European musical scenes, 1960s-today. The volume is a comprehensive, over-arching historical overview of the phenomenon. At the same time it offers a new critical reflection on it, based on contemporary musicological perspectives. Reviewers have noted its scale: ‘monumental…essential…definitive’.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- La musica folk emerged from many years’ engagement with source materials and musicians. Most of the research was conducted over a five-year period, but some elements are earlier (10 years). Plastino devised the volume, issued call-for-papers, commissioned some of the essays, worked in detail with contributors (taking every chapter through several versions), selected and edited historical texts, established overall structure and sequence, and authored Introduction (pp. 17-58) and two chapters: ‘Il gruppo è dotato di amplificazione. Con i Re Niliu, 1979-1985’ (pp. 818-851), and ‘I revival della lira calabrese’ (pp. 1249-1279).
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- This collection is in three parts. Part I assembles for the first time the most relevant theoretical analysis of the Italian folk music revival (early 1960s to mid-1980s): hitherto-inaccessible texts are re-edited, with new bibliographical apparatus. Part II gathers memoirs and conversations by/with folk-revival musicians, singers and bands, 1964-2015; historical texts (all newly edited) are juxtaposed with new contributions: together they provide a conspectus of personal observations and theoretical-performative trajectories. Part III comprises thirteen peer-reviewed essays (selected through call for papers), which reconsider from different perspectives issues of the past and present Italian folk revival.