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Gianluca Morozzi – Marco Rossari (eds.)
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Bob Dylan is more than a singer. He is an icon, a rockstar, a poet, a slob, a Jewish, a Catholic, a visionary, a narcissist, a misanthropist. He is a man who had only one God: the elusiveness. Dylan reflected himself in people of his own generation as well as in those who were born when Bob Dylan's inspiration was - temporarily - drying up. He danced with grandparents and drunk with youngsters, he rejected the light and discovered the folk music, he lost his voice and turned the light on, he shoot out marvellous poems. And he hasn't found yet a poet who sings his praises. Gianluca Morozzi was born in Bologna in 1971. He is a prolific author of novels, romance, graphic novels. His first work was in 2001 Despero and in 2004 he gained success with his novel Blackout . His last book is Il vangelo del coyote . Marco Rossari was born in Milano in 1972. He works as an editor and translator. He published the novel Perso (l'amore non resta che bere), the short story Invano veritas and the collection of poems L'amore in bocca . He writes for the newspaper “Il Riformista”.
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Mario Gamba (Ultra-Terrestrial) Cronopio,12 × 19, Collection: Virus, 210 pages
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At the beginning they were called no-global, later new-global. Nowadays it would be better to talk about persons from the global movement. From Seattle (1999) to Genoa (2001), from the peace protest of 100 millions of people all over the world on the 15 th of February 2003 to the G8 Rostock's protest in the summer 2007, this new political and cultural movement acts with different successes and offers resistance to the international capitalism's structures. Someone had also called it “movement of the movements”. Mario Gamba's book opens with a question: Are there in this movement some musical experiences from the twentieth and the twenty-first century which are equivalent to different cultural upsetting experiences? The answer is yes. Examples about these music products come from great artists as Butch Morris, Assif Tsahar, Fausto Romitelli, William Parker or the “new electronic” (Pan Sonic for example) and other artists such as Sun Ra or Nuova Consonanza. In the book it is also possible to find three “interludes”: three interviews to important figures of the present political culture: Toni Negri, Franco Berardi “Bifo” and Tiziana Terranova. Mario Gamba is a journalist of Il Manifesto, L'Espresso and Tg3. He writes on contemporary music and jazz .
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Roberto
Iovino & Ileana Matti Sinfonia gastronomica Viennepierre 2006 296 pages 18.00 euro |
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book deals with the relationship of food and music and it is designed
like a symphony - with a prelude, a first part, an interlude, a
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by Bruno Bergonzi Bevivino |
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book: there are words that
have a reference with music. When you are reading, if you pay attention,
you can listen the sound that comes out from the words. The lines
of text become lines of verse, and the story becomes a poem. Dreams,
imaginations, visions that you can find in this book seems yours.
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Cox, Franck, Hinant, Miller, Murphy, Paci Dalò, Quinz, Szepanski
Cronopio, 2006 all rights: Cronopio |
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The
history of the meeting of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy
and music, perhaps, can be said to begin in 1972, when Deleuze
took part in the recording of the LP Electronique Guerrilla with
the experimental rock band Heldon, and lent his voice to a fragment
taken from Nietzsche’s Human, All Too Human. Cristopher
Cox teaches philosophy at the Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachussets,
and writes on contemporary art and music. Philippe Franck is the
director of the interdisciplinary association «Transcultures»
in Bruxells. Guy-Marc Hinant, the author of fragments-stories and
video documentaries, is the co-founder of Observatoire des musiques
électroniques in Bruxells. Paul D. Miller, aka Dj Spooky,
a New York conceptual artist, writer and musician, has worked with
musicians and composers as diverse as R. Sakamoto, P. Boulez, Yoko
Ono and Thurston Moore from Sonic youth; his artworks were
exhibited in Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennial of Architecture and
the Andy Warhol Museum. Timothy S. Murphy, a professor of American
Literature at the University of Oklahoma, is the author of Wising
Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs (1997) and the
editor of The Philosophy of Antonio Negri: Resistance in Practice
(2005). Roberto Paci Dalò, a filmmaker, artist and musician,
works with many universities in Europe, USA and Latin America and
with Internationale Heiner Müller Gesellschaft in Berlin. Emanuele
Quinz teaches aesthetics of the new media at Paris 8 University
and at the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan; author
of several books, he is the founder and president of Anomos, a centre
of research on contemporary art creation and new technologies. Carlo
Simula is in charge with press and communication for Centro Arte
Contemporanea in Siena. Achim Szepanski, the founder of the electronic
music label Mille plateaux in Germany, is the author of several
essays on Adorno, Lacan, Deleuze and on music. |
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Glauco Cartocci
Il caso del doppio Beatle-Il dossier completo sulla "morte" di Paul McCartneyp. 320 - 14 euro
Spring 2006
SUONO NERO. Sulle strade della musica felice
(BLACK SOUND. On the road of happy music)
MC Editrice, forthcoming
A travel in the search for the old and new souls of Africa. An encounter with outstanding figures of the new black music - Yousson N'Dour, Miriam Makeba, Fela Kuti, the Xalam, Bobby Benson, Cheb Kaled. The volume includes black and white photos by Elena Carminati and a section about traditional instruments by Gabin Dabiré.VITTORIO FRANCHINI, a long career as correspondent of "Il Corriere della Sera", then director of various weekly and monthly magazines, including "La Domenica del Corriere", "Qui Touring", "Club3", is the author of many books about music and African ethnology. In his role of jazz critic he has travelled in Africa in the search for the original roots of jazz music. He has lived also in Louisiana and is honorary citizen of New Orleans. He has also worked for television and radio shows.
ELENA CARMINATI is a well-known photographer specialising in jazz and African music. She is the photographer preferred by Max Roach, Ornette Coleman and Sonny Rollins. One of her photos portraying Jerry Mulligan is at the White House and on the home page that the Library of Congress has reserved to. American music
GABEN DABIRÉ comes from Burkina Faso, near the border with Ghana and Ivory Coast, the very core of the African West Coast music. He is a singer and plays balafon, sanza, drums and guitar, performing in concerts throughout Europe.
Zona: AminoaCiDi series - Songwriters' Music in Books
The series is supervised by Professor Lorenzo Coveri, a linguistics teacher at the Genoa University. This series arises from a wish to deepen "the literature inside the most important Italian songwriters' works", from a linguistic point of view and in a popular style. Its purpose is to know and to understand usage and expressions of theItalian language through songs. At first these series' volumes were published in a CD book size (cm 12x13), they had 64 colour pages and were inside a specially provided box. Today they are published in a book size (cm 13x19,5), they have 128 pages and more sections with illustrations and information.ANDREA PODESTÀ: FABRIZIO DE ANDRÈ. IN DIREZIONE OSTINATA E CONTRARIA (In the obstinate and opposite direction)
Second Edition, pp. 128 3500 copies sold in the first edition
Fabrizio De Andrè (1943-1999) is surely the most known and loved Italian songwriter and his songs are translated in many languages and appreciated all over the Europe, especially thanks their poetical depiction of the contemporary world. Analyzing his songs texts Andrea Podestà leads us to discover the world De Andrè has dreamt, reading his artistic route, as well as choosing his linguistic and component aspects. The first edition of this book has been published in 2000 and it has sold 3500 copies. The second, revised and widened edition includes the impassioned interview, also comprised in the first edition, to the Genoese comic actor Beppe Grillo, in which he describes his friend De Andrè making his debuts and an exclusive interview to the musician and arranger Mauro Pagani, who was a collaborator and the “soul” of the Italian artist’s last works.
Andrea Podestà is a 35-year-old Genoese Arts teacher. He has discussed his graduation thesis on a study on the dialect use in De Andrè’s songs, published by the Italian Studies Review "Italiano Oggi".LUCA COZZARI: FRANCO BATTIATO. PRONIPOTE DEI PADRI DEL DESERTO (An Offspring from the Desert Fathers)
Zona, pp. 64
Franco Battiato is a many-sided singer, songwriter and musician, well known in Italy and abroad thanks to his ability in renovating folksongs rules. This book wants to analyse, how Battiato and his collaborators deal with the creative effort within his song texts and how his word-universe originates and develops. Through a long interview and a fluent, deepened essay - full of quotations from Battiato's songs and illustrated with Carmelo Bongiorno's charming photos - Luca Cozzari thus analyses his textual production. The volume is crowned with a complete final section including Battiato's discography, web sites, news and curiosities about him.
Luca Cozzari is a 30-year-old freelance journalist and an Italian song scholar. He has taken an Arts Degree, with thesis just on Franco Battiato and his works.In the same series: ANDREA PODESTÀ Francesco De Gregori. Camminando su Pezzi di Vetro.
MARZIO ANGIOLANI GENOVA. CANZONI IN SALITA. GUIDA ALLA CITTÀ E ALLE SUE CANZONI (Genoa. Uphill Songs. A Guidebook on Genoa's Town and its Songs)ZonaGenoa (European capital of the culture of the year 2004) seen trough places, hidden squares or spots immortalised by some of the most important Italian songwriters in their songs. From Luigi Tenco to Fabrizio De Andrè, from Gino Paoli to Paolo Conte and their younger "heirs a "musical map" of Genoa; the
section called Guided Tours is about "official" art places, suitable to a real tourist guide.
Marzio Angiolani was born in Genoa in 1974. He collaborated with a band for an event bringing songwriters’ songs in places of particular historic and artistic interest of Liguria. He has also written for some periodicals.ROMANO GIUFFRIDA
DE ANDRE', GLI OCCHI DELLA MEMORIA. Tracce di ricordi con Fabrizio
Elèuthera - 160 pp.
January 2002
On the stage of the great cultural and social changes of the last four decades, the known Italian singer Fabrizio De André has expressed in his songs and poems the feelings of more than one generation. Such feelings are expressed in the words of poets and musicians who met Fabrizio and his art - Carla Corso, Alda Merini, Andrea Gallo, Giorgio Bezzecchi, Massimo, Claudio Lolli, Tonino Paroli, Stefano Raspa.
Romano Giuffrida (1955), is author of essays and reportages. Another book on the same subject, Fabrizio De André, accordi eretici was published in 1997. Giuffirda has also directed a film, Faber (1999) dedicated to De Andrè.
