- Docente: Francesco Giardinazzo
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-FIL-LET/11
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Course contents
“THE MUSIC THAT GOES AROUND”
SCENES AND STORIES OF THE ITALIAN SONG
The course aims at telling a "musical biography" of Italy, which starts from the 1950s to the end of the 20th century. It can also be read as the story of a utopia: a suspended narration between memories (what has been) and past hopes (what could have been). This course is about songs and it aims at explaining how and why songs serve to tell the history of a country that is a "peninsula", i.e., an "almost-island" suspended between the Mediterranean Sea and Europe, which is in a sense both an almost-island and an almost-continent. From the Italian national anthem to “Mio fratello è figlio unico” ("my brother is an only child", i.e., the Italian song after which the programme of this course has been named) and over, the course will examine the extent to which unity vs. multiplicity, north vs. south and downtown vs. outskirts have always been- and are still- the main issues we have to be able to see, read and listen.
Office hours
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