Popular music
Subtitle: dinamiche della musica leggera dalle comunicazioni di massa alla rivoluzione digitale
By: Rosa Viscardi
Contributors: prefazione di Rossella Savarese
Series: Strumenti x comunicare -- 2
Publisher: Ellissi
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Napoli
Language: ita
Number of pages: 414
First sentence: Intendiamo indicare con popular music tutte quelle forme musicali di ascolto facile e disimpegnato, la cui fruibilità non richiede competenze particolari, che, prodotte da un settore specifico dell’industria culturale (l’industria discografica) per essere commercializzate, mediante appositi dispositivi, sul mercato dei beni di consumo, costituiscono parte integrante delle forme spettacolari proprie dell’industria culturale nel suo complesso — dallo spettacolo dal vivo a quello cinematografico, televisivo, ai formati radiofonici — finendo col rappresentare, in perenne sinergia con l’industria culturale stessa, la ‘colonna sonora’ dell’età industriale e postindustriale.
Description: The term "popular music" indicates all musical forms that are easy to listen to, not committed and do not need particular ability to be enjoyed. Produced by a specific area of the cultural industry to be commercialized and put on the market with appropriate issues, it is the integrating part of the cultural industry scene in all its complex — from the live shows to the films, television and radio formats — representing, in perennial synergy with the same cultural industry, the "sound track" of the industrial and post-industrial era. While music and songs have an ancient cultural history — except singular and exceptional experiments, besides the process of immediate and temporary performances — the technology that supports its reproduction is instead relatively recent.
Notes: Number of series appears on cover.

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