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Fabrizio De André, popular intellectual
Guendalina Carbonelli Monash University I cannot remember the first time I came across Fabrizio. I was a child when like many Italians I started to listen to his songs with my parents and my older...
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MUSICAL MIGRANTS: PICTURES AND STORIES FROM THE LUCANIAN COMMUNITY IN MELBOURNE
With the collaboration of the Federazione Lucana, the Museo Italiano (199 Faraday Street, Carlton, Vic 3053) has organised an exhibition and a series of musical and cultural events based on the music...
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SOUTHERN ITALIAN MUSIC IN MELBOURNE
In October the Museo Italiano (Co.As.It., 199 Faraday Street, Carlton) will host two free events devoted to the oral musical tradition of Southern Italy. Wednesday 16 October 6.30pm – The Italian...
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Migration Blues: Readings and songs from ‘Schizophrenia Migrantis’
According to Danilo Sidari, ‘schizophrenia migrantis’ is a state of mind affecting the majority of migrants (regardless of their ethnicity) and caused by a strong feeling of homesickness. The malaise...
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Foreign Artists in Italy 1900-2015
The Canadian Society for Italian Studies Conference, Sorrento, 19-21 June 2015, invites papers for an interdisciplinary session on Foreign Artists in Italy 1900-2015. Papers may focus on foreign...
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RISM seminar (19 March): Alessandro Carrieri on Jewish musicians in Fascist...
As the first contribution to the RISM/Italian Studies in the Community seminars for 2015 Alessandro Carrieri will talk on Memory and resistance of Jewish musicians in Fascist Italy on March 19 at 5.30...
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Bartolomeo Cristofori, pianoforte man
Sally Grant New York For those who may have missed it, on Monday Google celebrated the 360th birthday of Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) of Padua, with a doodle dedicated to the relatively unknown,...
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Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers during Fascism
There are voices of musicians that still remain unheard but will remain alive forever. This is the case of Jewish musicians and composers in Fascist and Nazi-Fascist Italy who were excluded from...
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La Voce Della Luna
La Voce Della Luna is a Melbourne-based multi-generational Italian women’s choir which has been singing Italian folk songs since 1996. In Songs of Motherland, at the Museo Italiano, 199 Faraday St,...
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The Diva in Modern Italian Culture
The latest issue (vol.70, no.3, August 2015) of the journal Italian Studies, entitled The Diva in Modern Italian Culture, explores a national case that has been largely overlooked in the extensive...
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