HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIO-CULTURAL PROCESSES
STORIA DEI PROCESSI SOCIO-CULTURALI CONTEMPORANEI
| A.Y. | Credits |
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| 2022/2023 | 8 |
| Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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| Amoreno Martellini | students need to book office hours via email |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
The main objective of the course is to provide students with the critical tools for understanding the relationship developed in the second half of the twentieth century between mass culture and cultural consumption, especially as regards music production and consumption.
Program
The course intends to offer a diachronic reading of the relationship between mass culture and cultural consumption during the twentieth century and in particular in the second half of the century. In the general part, the topic will be addressed at an international level. The monographic part will analyze the situation in Italy and in particular the role of the song as an element of mass production and consumption. On more than one occasion, the musical language becomes a terrain of encounter or clash between popular culture and high culture, interpreting and accompanying the main social and economic transformations of the nation and generating a debate in which intellectuals and artists participate. The evolution of the song thus becomes a key to interpreting the cultural processes of the twentieth century.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Course books
One to choose from:
A.M. Banti, Wonderland. La cultura di massa da Walt Disney ai Pink Floyd, Laterza
U. Eco, Apocalittici e integrati. Comunicazioni di massa e teorie della cultura di massa, Bompiani
S. Pivato (con A. Martellini), Bellla ciao, Laterza
Also one to choose from:
A. Portelli, Bob Dylan. Pioggia e veleno, Donzelli
L. Campus, Non sono solo canzonette. L'Italia della ricostruzione e del miracolo attraverso il Festival di Sanremo, Le Monnier
E. Berselli, Canzoni, il Mulino
M. Merolla, Rock'n'roll italian way. Propaganda americana e modernizzazione nell'Italia che cambia al ritmo del rock. 1954-1964, Coniglio Ed.
Other bibliographic indications will be provided to attending students during the lessons
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
There are no differences compared to attending students
- Attendance
There are no differences compared to attending students
- Course books
There are no differences compared to attending students
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