- 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
“A SONG FOR YOU”
ITALIAN SONG AND THE RHETORIC OF PASSIONS
Italian culture is universally defined by its artistic forms. Investigating the correlations of the Italian culture with history and society - and all its relevant changes- is the first step toward the knowledge of both its essential elements and its most vivid aspects. One of them is, for example, the Italian song in all its various forms, conceived in particular from the point of view of passions.
The role of songs in the italian popular culture is more relevant than any other aspect, because it involves different elements of the culture itself.
Fragments of truth (sometimes), beautiful lies, conformities that are outdated but always successfull: all of them are part of the range of the creative possibilities of songs, that are open to various experiments and expedients making it possible to stage idyll, comedy or tragedy, as well as more familiar clichés that are are perceived as original and surprising within the field of passions.
This is all about songs, conceived as a complex system of technical relationships, compositive strategies (text, music, musical arrangement, performance) and communicative strategies (the use of mass media and social media) having the purpose of establishing a relationship with its potential (and real) audience.
You always hope that your favorite song will go on the air. Indeed, you hope it will always happen, and that, sooner or later, only the songs you like will be broadcast. The problem is to wait for the "sooner or later": this is also "passion".
The course wants to emphasize the importance of this theme through the works of some relevant singsong writers (Vasco Rossi, Lucio Dalla, Ivano Fossati, Pino Daniele, Niccolò Fabi, and others) during the ’80-’90 years and the new millennium.
Readings/Bibliography
See Testi/Bibliografia
Teaching methods
As for the class format, traditional lectures will be integrated by the use of audiovisual tools and debates with the students.
Assessment methods
The exam consists of a paper whose topic will be chosen by each student on the basis of the lessons and texts included in the programme.
Teaching tools
See "Strumenti a supporto della didattica"
Office hours
See the website of Francesco Giardinazzo