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Lazzari felici: Neapolitan song and/as nostalgia

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Goffredo Plastino

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Abstract

Although the canzone napoletana (Neapolitan song) is the best-known Italian popular music in the world, it is also the most misunderstood. It is mostly associated with operatic or quasi-operatic vocal styles, but all the other Neapolitan popular voices, the performance features and even the history of this musical genre are less well known. This essay in particular considers how the porous Neapolitan voice is a 'space' for complex negotiations between different musical styles, and how through this voice (that admits within itself the existence of other vocal styles) Neapolitan composers, musicians and singers articulate different relationships between music, history anti nostalgia.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Plastino G

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Popular Music

Year: 2007

Volume: 26

Issue: 3

Pages: 429-440

Date deposited: 15/07/2010

ISSN (print): 0261-1430

ISSN (electronic): 1474-0095

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0261143007001365

DOI: 10.1017/S0261143007001365


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