ARTICOLI, VOCI DI ENCICLOPEDIA E LIBRI IN INGLESE
REFERENCE WORKS
Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. Vol XI. Genres: Europe, Bloomsbury, London/New York, 2017 – eds, Paolo Prato and David Horn
Avanspettacolo (Gianni Borgna)
Canti degli alpini (Ignazio Macchiarella)
Canti delle mondine (Ambrogio Sparagna e Paolo Prato)
Canti di passione (Ambrogio Sparagna e Paolo Prato)
Canto a tenores (Ignazio Macchiarella)
Canzone (Franco Fabbri)
Canzone napoletana (Giovanni Vacca)
Canzoni di malavita (Goffredo Plastino)
Heavy Metal in Italy (Jacopo Conti)
Hip hop in Italy (Jacopo Conti)
Italian Progressive (Franco Fabbri)
Italo Disco (Jacopo Conti e Phil Kirby)
Liscio (Roberto Agostini e Paolo Prato)
Macchietta (Simona Frasca)
Musica neomelodica (Vincenzo Perna)
Punk in Italy (Peter Sarram)
Romanza da salotto (Gianni Borgna)
Sceneggiata (Simona Frasca e Paolo Prato)
Tammuriata (Giovanni Vacca)
Tarantella (Giovanni Vacca)
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Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, vol. VII, Locations: Europe, Continuum, London/New York, 2005, eds. John Shepherd, David Horn and Dave Laing:
Italy (Paolo Prato)
Central Italy (Franco Minganti e Paolo Prato)
Northern Italy (Vincenzo Perna)
Sardegna (Stefano Pogelli)
Southern Italy (Stefano Pogelli)
Bologna (Roberto Agostini e Pierfrancesco Pacoda)
Firenze (Simone Brogioni)
Genova (Paolo Prato)
Napoli (Paolo Prato)
Roma (Paolo Prato e Francesco Adinolfi)
San Remo (Paolo Prato)
Torino and Piedmont (Franz Coriasco)
Italian Diaspora (Paolo Prato e Francesco Adinolfi)
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BOOKS
Goffredo Plastino and J.Sciorra (eds), Neapolitan Postcards: the Canzone napoletana as transnational subject, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham-Boulder-NY 2016.
Contents:
Foreword: Neapolitan Postcards, Martin Stokes
- Echoes of Naples, Goffredo Plastino
- A Mediterranean Triangle: Naples, Smyrna, Athens, Franco Fabbri
- The Neapolitan Sound Goes Around: Mechanical Music Instruments, Talking Machines, and Neapolitan Song (1850-1925), Anita Pesce
- The Folk Within: On Some Neapolitan Productions in Early Twentieth-Century Italian-American Records, Giuliana Fugazzotto
- New York City Neapolitan Music from the Calandra Institute’s Mark Pezzano Collection, Rosangela Briscese and Joseph Sciorra
- You Can Go Home Again, and Again: Santa Lucia Luntana, the Film, Giorgio Bertellini
- Diasporic Musings on Veracity and Uncertainties of “Core ‘ngrato”, Joseph Sciorra
- Napoli in Buenos Aires: From Canzonetta to Tango Cancion, Ana Cara
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Transatlantic Stereotypes 1880s-1950s, Paolo Prato
- Blues in the Bay: The Bluesology of James Senese and Raiz, Alessandro Buffa and Iain Chambers
- Afterword: Neapolitan Postcards and Metaphorical Materiality: Ontologies of Intimacy, Philip V. Bohlman.
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Franco Fabbri and Goffredo Plastino (eds), Made in Italy: Studies in Popular Music Routledge, London-New York, 2014
Contents:
- Franco Fabbri and Goffredo Plastino, Introduction: An Egg of Columbus: How Can Italian Popular Music Studies Stand on Their Own?
Part I: Themes
- Marcello Sorce Keller, Italy in Music: A Sweeping (and Somewhat Audacious) Reconstruction of a Problematic Identity
- Roberto Agostini, Sanremo Effects: The Festival and the Italian Canzone (1950s–1960s)
- Franco Fabbri, And the Bitt Went On
- Goffredo Plastino, Naples Power: Neapolitan Sounds of the 1970s
- Francesco D’amato, Music Economies and Markets in Italy
Part II: Singer-Songwriters
- Jacopo Tomatis, A Portrait of the Author as an Artist: Ideology, Authenticity, and Stylization in the Canzone d’Autore
- Luca Marconi, Canzoni Diverse: A Semiotic Approach to Luigi Tenco’s Songs
- Jacopo Conti, You Can Call Them, If You Like, Emotions: The (Un)Orthodox Songs of Lucio Battisti
- Errico Pavese, Saved Souls: Locating Style in Fabrizio De André’s and Ivano Fossati’s Record Production
- Alessandro Carrera, Mystical Arrogance: Franco Battiato’s Esoteric Pop
Part III: Stories
- Carlo Pestelli, An Escape from Escapism: The Short History of Cantacronache
- Paolo Prato, Virtuosity and Populism: The Everlasting Appeal of Mina and Celentano
- Alessandro Bratus, In the Court of a Foreign King: 1970s Italian Progressive Rock in the UK
- Elena Boschi, Radiofreccia: A Rocker from Emilia behind the Film Camera
- Vincenzo Perna, Killer Melodies: The Musica Neomelodica Debate
Coda
- Dario Martinelli, Lasciatemi Cantare and Other Diseases: Italian Popular Music, as Represented Abroad
Afterword
- Franco Fabbri And Goffredo Plastinom Provisionally Popular: A Conversation with Ennio Morricone
Simona Frasca, Birds of Passage. The Diaspora of Neapolitan Musicians in New York, Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2014
Linda Barwick – Marcello Sorce Keller (eds.), Italy in Australia’s Music Landscape, Lyrebird Press, Melbourne 2013.
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ARTICLES, CHAPTERS
Alessandro Carrera, Down in the Groove of Italian Music, in Forum Italicum – special issue “Music and Society in Italy”. Vol. 49 (2). 2015 (ed. by Alessandro Carrera)
Marcello Sorce Keller, Ignored and Forgotten: Research on Jewish-Italian Music during the 19th and 20th Centuries, in Forum Italicum – special issue “Music and Society in Italy”. Vol. 49 (2). 2015 (ed. by Alessandro Carrera)
Guendalina Carbonelli, Fabrizio De Andrè’s Le nuvole: Italy’s Disillusionment at the End of the 1980s, in Forum Italicum – special issue “Music and Society in Italy”. Vol. 49 (2). 2015 (ed. by Alessandro Carrera)
Alessandro Portelli, ‘Guests’: Three Migrant Voices in Italy, Forum Italicum – special issue “Music and Society in Italy”. Vol. 49 (2). 2015 (ed. by Alessandro Carrera)
Franco Fabbri, Five Easy Pieces 1964-2006: 40 Years of Music and Politics in Italy, from B(ella ciao) to B(erlusconi), in Forum Italicum – special issue “Music and Society in Italy”. Vol. 49 (2). 2015 (ed. by Alessandro Carrera)
Popular Music 26 (3), 2007: “Italian issue”, ed by Goffredo Plastino, Marco Santoro with John Street:
Contents:
- Roberto Agostini, The Italian Canzone and the Sanremo Festival. Change and Continuity in Italian Mainstream Pop of the Sixties.’ Popular Music 26(3), 2007
- Franco Fabbri, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the 1970s: l’Orchestra Co-operative, 1974-1983.
- Goffredo Plastino, Lazzari felici. Neapolitan Song and/as Nostalgia
- Paolo Prato, Selling Italy by the Sound: Cross-Cultural Interchanges through Cover Records (1920s-to date)
- Marco Santoro and Marco Solaroli, Authors and Rappers; Italian Hip Hop and the Shifting Boundaries of Canzone d’Autore
- Tony Mitchell, Paolo Conte: Italian ‘Arthouse Exotic’
- Tom Behan, Putting Sparks in the Works: the Politics of the 99 Posse
Goffredo Plastino, Inventing Ethnic Music. Fabrizio De André’s Creuza de mä and the Creation of Musica mediterranea in Italy.’ In Mediterranean Mosaic, ed. Goffredo Plastino, New York and London: Routledge, 2003.
Paolo Prato, From TV to Holidays: Karaoke in Italy, in: T.Mitsui-S.Hosokawa (eds.). Karaoke Around the World. Global technology, Local Singing, Routledge: London – New York, 1994
Franco Fabbri, The System of Canzone in Italy Today, In World Music, Politics and Social Change, ed. Simon Frith. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1989
Paolo Prato, Tradition, Exoticism and Cosmopolitism in Italian Popular Music, in Differentia, vol. 2, 1986
Nemesio Ala – Emilio Ghezzi, Music and Advertising on Italian Television, in Popular Music Perspectives 2: Papers from the Second Conference On Popular Music Studies, Reggio Emilia, 1983.
Umberto Fiori, Rock Music and Politics in Italy, in Popular Music 4, 1984