CantaNapoli illustrata
Subtitle: paradigmi iconografici dell’industria culturale partenopea tra Otto e Novecento
By: Rosa Viscardi
Publisher: Sigmalibri
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Naples -- Italy
Number of pages: 190
First sentence: Assieme a calendarietti, figurine, menu, santini, scatole di fiammiferi, segnalibri e via annoverando, copielle e mandolini, cantopiani e piedigrotte rientrano nei canoni delle «carte povere».
Description: From the thirties of the 1800 to the thirties of the 1900, the Neapolitan song has a constant evolution that allows the establishment of a solid music publishing trade, which is able to use precise production and consumption technologies in a larger cultural industry sector, linked to tradition but — at the same time — extremely sensible to renewal needs. Freed from their folk dimension, the editorial enterprises became increasingly interested. An incredible development of a system, based on an industrial organization having modern characteristics, derives from this. Essential, for this purpose, the contribution of illustrators: famous painters, publishers fond of art, writers with a painting past, journalists with an editorial future, poets fond of painting. And not only Neapolitans "by birth". Eclectic characters, often fleeting, sometimes unknown, maybe far from the style rules of the time. But absolutely aware of their own part in the popular music industry.
Notes: 248 photos
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