ETNOMUSICOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY MUSICAL LANGUAGES

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

MM5061

Academic Year of enrolment:

2018

Year of supply:

2020/2021

Type of Course:

Related/Supplementary

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in HUMANITIES

Disciplinary Sector:

Ethnomusicology

Language:

Italian

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

BULTRIGHINI Umberto

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

108

Prerequisites:

No requirements.

Objectives

- Knowledge of the main topics of Ethnomusicology.
- Knowledge of the main dynamics of the history of popular song (“Mass song”), its particular forms of production and the interaction between market strategies and forms of universal reception of the musical product. Acquisition of awareness of the deep historical dimension of the application of the music/words coupling.
- Exercise and development of the ability to critically analyse and compare cases of mass production and their genesis, and to supply clear and exhaustive communication thereof.

Contents

Popular song (“Mass song”) and its relationships with the collective imagination in the 20th century.

Extended Syllabus

Analysis, from a musical, philological, historical and social viewpoint, of the interaction between popular song texts and collective imagination, with special reference to the deep changes of the key Sixties-Seventies period. The course will be introduced by an outline of the history of the music-text relationship from Greek antiquity to the contemporary age.

Recommended Bibliography

- U. BULTRIGHINI, Comunicazione diretta e comunicazione indiretta. Parole e note nella dinamica della ricezione musicale di massa. Il caso dei Sixties, in Teatro e Musica. Incontri, percorsi, prospettive, edited by Elisabetta Fazzini and Giorgio Grimaldi, Milano, LED Editore, 2015. (downloadable from http://www.ledonline.it/Il-Segno-le-Lettere/allegati/762-Ricerche-Prospe...)
- U. BULTRIGHINI, Evoluzione e involuzione:la concezione della donna nella canzone italiana del Novecento, in Donna nella storia. Realtà e rappresentazione dall’antico al contemporaneo, edited by Elisabetta Dimauro, Carabba Editrice, Lanciano 2016, pp. 159-200 (info@editricecarabba.it).
- U. BULTRIGHINI-C. SCARPA-G. GUGLIELMI, Al di qua, al di là del beat. Radici e dinamiche del beat italiano: le voci di tre testimoni, Prefazione di D. SALVATORI, Carabba Editrice, Lanciano 2011 (info@editricecarabba.it).
- F. LIPERI, Storia della canzone italiana, NUOVA EDIZIONE, RAI-ERI, Roma 2017 (rai-eri@rai.it), or: G. BORGNA, Storia della canzone italiana, Oscar Saggi Mondadori 1994.
- U. BULTRIGHINI-G. OLIVA (edited by), Dopo i Beatles. Musica e società negli anni Settanta, Carabba Editrice, Lanciano 2003 (info@editricecarabba.it).
- R. LEYDI, L'altra musica. Etnomusicologia, Casa Ricordi/LIM Editrice, Milano 2008.

Testo aggiuntivo per studenti non frequentanti:

R. Leydi, L'altra musica. Etnomusicologia, Casa Ricordi S.r.l e LIM Editrice S.r.l.

Materials related to the subjects dealt with will be downloadable from the University website at the end of the course.

Note
The above reference texts constitute the exam programme for both attending and non-attending students, together with any material downloadable from the University website. It is further pointed out that any presumed unavailability of texts is unacceptable, since the site address where they can be found is supplied.

Methods of Provision

Conventional

Teaching Methods

The course consists of 42 h of frontal teaching.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Oral exam on the course content with a final mark out of thirty. The knowledge of the bibliography and the proposed topics will be assessed. In particular, the following judgment parameters will be taken into account: knowledge of the contents, critical and methodological skills, clarity of presentation. The score goes from 1 to 30 with honors, according to the following: 1-17 insufficient, 18-21 sufficient, 22-24 discreet, 25-27 good, 28-29 very good, 30-30 with excellent praise.

Contacts/More Information

In the discipline cannot be sustained more than 6 cfu. Those who want to take the exam in order to obtain teaching credits (in number of 6) will refer to the same program - from attending and not attending - of the students in progress. Students of the degree course in Literature must register for the exam in online mode and check the eventual convocation on time or day after the beginning of the exam.

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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