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The Work: Language, Power and Arts…
The chapter examines the meanings of “the work” for vocalists who engage in vocal arts of different kinds in...
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Singing a Life in Bondage: Black Vocality and Subjectivity in 12 Years a Slave
The role of singing voice is central in defining the paradoxical condition of “free slave” within Steve McQueen’s 2013...
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To Become Human
This Comparative Investigation Into Lena McLin’s Vocal Pedagogy and the Italian School of Vocologia Artistica is an ethnographic journey through...
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“Today you have day off”: un’artista etiope-italiana e il mondo dell’arte postcoloniale
Gabriella Ghermandi is an Ethiopian-born storyteller and vocalist based in Bologna (Italy), who writes in Italian, sings in Amharic,...
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Sound Recordings and Dignity Takings: Reflections on the Racialization of Migrants in Contemporary Italy
In this Article, I will rely on my encounter with Badara Seck, a wellknown vocalist from Senegal who has...
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When the Stars begins to fall. Exoticism, Blues Aesthetic and Representations of Singing in the American South
Between 1800 and 1863 – the years of the Emancipation Proclamation – many travellers from Europe or the North...
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Black music e musicisti napoletani. Un’indagine introduttiva
This paper aims at examining the intersections between the work of Neapolitan musicians and musics composed and performed by...
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Badara Seck. Il contributo del griot e l’identità come frammento accessorio
Vocalist, composer, actor and director, Badara Seck was born in Senegal but has been active in Italy for many...
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Fratello di latte
In queste pagine darò conto di un esperimento, che consiste nel registrare le voci dei venditori africani – nella...
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Canto, relitto, memoria. Il Mediterraneo di Badara Seck e Admir Shkurtaj
While focusing on the works created – in the midst of the so-called migration crisis – by two musicians...
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Around the Sound: paaesaggi e prospettive tra etnomusicologia e Studi culturali
Music is not a universal language. It is rather a border territory, a space both physical and symbolic in...
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La polvere e le ossa
Is it possible to define the relationship between the sound of a singing voice and the memory of that...
