Popular Song Forms and Styles
The course intends to provide students with the necessary methodological and critical knowledge to understand forms and contents of the modern popular song in Italy and abroad. The aim of the lessons is also to delve into songs’ practical use along history, the evolution of customs and the mutations in Contemporary culture both in relation to poetry and to mass culture and folklore. A further objective is to prepare students to utilize the resources of songs creatively, in artistic activities or while teaching music and other subjects, including foreign languages.
The course intends to provide students with the necessary methodological and critical knowledge to understand forms and contents of the modern popular song in Italy and abroad. The aim of the lessons is also to delve into songs’ practical use along history, the evolution of customs and the mutations in Contemporary culture both in relation to poetry and to mass culture and folklore. A further objective is to prepare students to utilize the resources of songs creatively, in artistic activities or while teaching music and other subjects, including foreign languages.
teacher profile teaching materials
2) Eugenia Casini Ropa, "La danza e l'agitprop: i teatri-non-teatrali nella cultura tedesca del primo Novecento", Bologna: il Mulino, 1988 - up to p. 122 (Foreword and chapters "1. Tre casi" and "2. Kõrperseele: il corpo anima"). A new edition of the volume is also available: Cue Press 2015.
3) Alessandro Pontremoli, "La danza. Storia, teoria, estetica nel Novecento", Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2004. Chapters "1. La nascita della danza moderna"; "3. La danza di un corpo nuovo"; "4. La danza nel secondo Novecento" (pp. 3-31; 62-105).
4) Handouts and videos.
Not-attending students will add:
4) Susanne Franco, "Martha Graham", Palermo: L'Epos, 2003.
or Marta Graham, "La memoria del sangue. Un'autobiografia", Roma: Audino, 2022.
Mutuazione: 20702632 LINEAMENTI DI STORIA DELLA DANZA MODERNA E CONTEMPORANEA in DAMS (Discipline delle Arti, della Musica e dello Spettacolo) L-3 R DI TIZIO RAFFAELLA
Programme
From Mary Wigman to Pina Bausch: The course will observe developments and transformations of modern and contemporary Western dance, starting with the search for a new expressiveness that animated the German dance scene in the first half of the 20th century up to the innovative creations, from the 1970s, of dance-theatre.Core Documentation
1) Susann Manning, "Mary Wigman e la danza tedesca del primo Novecento", edited by Patrizia Veroli, Rome: Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici, 2016.2) Eugenia Casini Ropa, "La danza e l'agitprop: i teatri-non-teatrali nella cultura tedesca del primo Novecento", Bologna: il Mulino, 1988 - up to p. 122 (Foreword and chapters "1. Tre casi" and "2. Kõrperseele: il corpo anima"). A new edition of the volume is also available: Cue Press 2015.
3) Alessandro Pontremoli, "La danza. Storia, teoria, estetica nel Novecento", Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2004. Chapters "1. La nascita della danza moderna"; "3. La danza di un corpo nuovo"; "4. La danza nel secondo Novecento" (pp. 3-31; 62-105).
4) Handouts and videos.
Not-attending students will add:
4) Susanne Franco, "Martha Graham", Palermo: L'Epos, 2003.
or Marta Graham, "La memoria del sangue. Un'autobiografia", Roma: Audino, 2022.
Attendance
Classroom and distance learning, but classroom attendance is strongly recommended.Type of evaluation
Colloquium on the materials and texts studied.