Cosa Nostra Social Club. Mafia, malavita e musica 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
- 1362-68299-1300
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- il Saggiatore
- ISBN
- 9788842815211
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
- 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
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- This monograph analyses depictions of individual and collective violence, and of organized crime, in Italian opera, folk and popular music from the late nineteenth century until the 2010s. Drawing on extensive musicological, ethnomusicological, anthropological, and sociological literature, it considers successive waves of moral panic that have arisen in Italian society as result of, or in reaction to, the media coverage and the popularity of ‘crime music’ repertoires and performers. It contributes to recent musicological debates on music and violence (particularly in popular music studies and ethnomusicology) and evaluates recent debates in this emerging field of inquiry.