The course aims to provide a general knowledge of the relationships that bind the various audiovisual media to the articulated contemporary music scene. At the same time, the historical, artistic and linguistic aspects of the main musical cultures now widespread among young people will be studied.
Curriculum
teacher profile teaching materials
The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools to analyse sense and meaning of youth cultures from their birth in the ‘50s until our days, being as they were (and are) in a conflicting entanglement with the mass media that amplify them and make them popular.
Beginning with the American and British scene, we will analyse how youth cultures manifested themselves, focusing in particular on the kinds of music they adopted. Attention will be given particularly to the Italian scene, deeply and for long marked by alternative music trends which, from the ‘60s onwards, found in singer-songwriters (“cantautori”), in rock and in rap music, their favoured way of communication.
Alemanni Cesare, Rap, Minimum Fax, Roma 2019.
Caroli Francesco, Il mutamento delle subculture, Meltemi 2023.
Hebdige Dick, Sottocultura, Meltemi, Sesto San Giovanni 2017.
Mutuazione: 20711207 MEDIA E CULTURE MUSICALI GIOVANILI in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 R VACCA GIOVANNI
Programme
Since teen-agers appeared after World War II, youth cultures have shown their independence from the adult world in a contrast that only in recent times seems to be weakening. With the advent of cultural studies, started in Great Britain in the ‘60s, sociologists and popular music scholars have been discussing such trends for their strong connotation in terms of style and music.The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools to analyse sense and meaning of youth cultures from their birth in the ‘50s until our days, being as they were (and are) in a conflicting entanglement with the mass media that amplify them and make them popular.
Beginning with the American and British scene, we will analyse how youth cultures manifested themselves, focusing in particular on the kinds of music they adopted. Attention will be given particularly to the Italian scene, deeply and for long marked by alternative music trends which, from the ‘60s onwards, found in singer-songwriters (“cantautori”), in rock and in rap music, their favoured way of communication.
Core Documentation
Alemanni Cesare, Rap, Minimum Fax, Roma 2019.
Caroli Francesco, Il mutamento delle subculture, Meltemi 2023.
Hebdige Dick, Sottocultura, Meltemi, Sesto San Giovanni 2017.
Attendance
twice a weekType of evaluation
oral test teacher profile teaching materials
The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools to analyse sense and meaning of youth cultures from their birth in the ‘50s until our days, being as they were (and are) in a conflicting entanglement with the mass media that amplify them and make them popular.
Beginning with the American and British scene, we will analyse how youth cultures manifested themselves, focusing in particular on the kinds of music they adopted. Attention will be given particularly to the Italian scene, deeply and for long marked by alternative music trends which, from the ‘60s onwards, found in singer-songwriters (“cantautori”), in rock and in rap music, their favoured way of communication.
Alemanni Cesare, Rap, Minimum Fax, Roma 2019.
Caroli Francesco, Il mutamento delle subculture, Meltemi 2023.
Hebdige Dick, Sottocultura, Meltemi, Sesto San Giovanni 2017.
Mutuazione: 20711207 MEDIA E CULTURE MUSICALI GIOVANILI in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 R VACCA GIOVANNI
Programme
Since teen-agers appeared after World War II, youth cultures have shown their independence from the adult world in a contrast that only in recent times seems to be weakening. With the advent of cultural studies, started in Great Britain in the ‘60s, sociologists and popular music scholars have been discussing such trends for their strong connotation in terms of style and music.The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools to analyse sense and meaning of youth cultures from their birth in the ‘50s until our days, being as they were (and are) in a conflicting entanglement with the mass media that amplify them and make them popular.
Beginning with the American and British scene, we will analyse how youth cultures manifested themselves, focusing in particular on the kinds of music they adopted. Attention will be given particularly to the Italian scene, deeply and for long marked by alternative music trends which, from the ‘60s onwards, found in singer-songwriters (“cantautori”), in rock and in rap music, their favoured way of communication.
Core Documentation
Alemanni Cesare, Rap, Minimum Fax, Roma 2019.
Caroli Francesco, Il mutamento delle subculture, Meltemi 2023.
Hebdige Dick, Sottocultura, Meltemi, Sesto San Giovanni 2017.
Attendance
twice a weekType of evaluation
oral test teacher profile teaching materials
The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools to analyse sense and meaning of youth cultures from their birth in the ‘50s until our days, being as they were (and are) in a conflicting entanglement with the mass media that amplify them and make them popular.
Beginning with the American and British scene, we will analyse how youth cultures manifested themselves, focusing in particular on the kinds of music they adopted. Attention will be given particularly to the Italian scene, deeply and for long marked by alternative music trends which, from the ‘60s onwards, found in singer-songwriters (“cantautori”), in rock and in rap music, their favoured way of communication.
Alemanni Cesare, Rap, Minimum Fax, Roma 2019.
Caroli Francesco, Il mutamento delle subculture, Meltemi 2023.
Hebdige Dick, Sottocultura, Meltemi, Sesto San Giovanni 2017.
Programme
Since teen-agers appeared after World War II, youth cultures have shown their independence from the adult world in a contrast that only in recent times seems to be weakening. With the advent of cultural studies, started in Great Britain in the ‘60s, sociologists and popular music scholars have been discussing such trends for their strong connotation in terms of style and music.The course aims to provide students with the theoretical and methodological tools to analyse sense and meaning of youth cultures from their birth in the ‘50s until our days, being as they were (and are) in a conflicting entanglement with the mass media that amplify them and make them popular.
Beginning with the American and British scene, we will analyse how youth cultures manifested themselves, focusing in particular on the kinds of music they adopted. Attention will be given particularly to the Italian scene, deeply and for long marked by alternative music trends which, from the ‘60s onwards, found in singer-songwriters (“cantautori”), in rock and in rap music, their favoured way of communication.
Core Documentation
Alemanni Cesare, Rap, Minimum Fax, Roma 2019.
Caroli Francesco, Il mutamento delle subculture, Meltemi 2023.
Hebdige Dick, Sottocultura, Meltemi, Sesto San Giovanni 2017.
Reference Bibliography
Benaglia Isabella, Trappebasta, Laurana Editore, Milano 2020. Benasso Sebastiano - Benvenga Luca, Trap! Novalogos 2024. Carrera Alessandro, Musica e pubblico giovanile, Feltrinelli, Milano 1980. Chambers Iain, Ritmi urbani, Meltemi, Sesto San Giovanni 2018. De Gennaro Luca, Generazione alternativa 1991-1995, Rizzoli Lizard, 2024. Gilroy Paul, The Black Atlantic, Meltemi, Roma 2003. Hall Stewart - Jefferson Tony, Rituali di resistenza, Novalogos 2017. Maffi Mario, La cultura Underground, Odoya 2009. Mattioli Valerio, Superonda, Baldini & Castoldi, Milano 2016. Ong W.J., Oralità e scrittura, Il Mulino, Bologna 1986. Ortoleva Peppino, Mediastoria, Pratiche Editrice, Milano 1997. Ortoleva Peppino, Il secolo dei media, Il Saggiatore 2009. Pardo Piergiorgio, Le controculture giovanili, Xenia 1997. Roszak Theodor, La nascita di una controcultura, Feltrinelli1971. Spagna Francesco, Cultura e controcultura, elèuthera 2016. Carrera Alessandro, Musica e pubblico giovanile, Feltrinelli, Milano 1980. Gilroy Paul, The Black Atlantic, Meltemi, Sesto San Giovanni 2019. Thornton Sarah, Dai club ai rave, Feltrinelli 1995. Zukar Paola, Rap. Una storia italiana, Baldini & Castoldi, Milano 2021.Attendance
twice a weekType of evaluation
oral test