Italy between Politics and Costumes
Course Program for 2021-2022 academic year -
Course of Study: Humanities
History of the Italian Republic
Professor Maria Teresa Giusti
email: mt.giusti62@gmail.com m.giusti@unich.it
The course aims at analyzing the relationship between the customs of Italians - including melodic and non-melodic music - and political life, from the Second World War onwards. The change of customs and society described in the texts of Italiana songs and present in the musical performances will be examined.
The syllabus for students who take the exam for 6 academic credits is the following
- Guido Formigoni, Storia essenziale dell'Italia Repubblicana, Il Mulino (in uscita a settembre 2021)
- Edmondo Berselli, Canzoni. Storia dell'Italia leggera, Il Mulino
The syllabus for students who take the exam for 9 academic credits is the following:
- Guido Formigoni, Storia essenziale dell'Italia Repubblicana, Il Mulino (in uscita a settembre 2021)
- Edmondo Berselli, Canzoni. Storia dell'Italia leggera, Il Mulino
- S. Colarizi, Un paese in movimento. L'Italia negli anni Sessanta e Settanta, Laterza.
The syllabus aims at providing the Students in the knowledge about some themes regarding Italian history during the Republican age, starting from the second post-war period, particularly the history of Italian costumes as this one is told in the songs. Referring to the general objectives, and taking into account the objectives referred to the Course of Study, at the end of the course the students will have to reach a critical attitude which allows them to evaluate the cause-effect relationships of the historical events; they will have to analyze the historical phenomena; to compare historical events; carry out a scientific research. As regards the specific objectives of the discipline, students will have to gain a correct command of the specific historical language referred to the studied contents; they will have to carry out an archival research; to know the historiography about specific themes; they will have to collect bibliographic material and information; to grasp connections of events; to prepare a history lesson on a set theme; to report to the working group on a specific topic; to write a text with notes; to know how to analyze a political case in a critical way.
