Seminario di Pietro Misuraca (Università di Palermo)
29/05/2025 ore 9 Via Divisi, 81, 90133 Palermo PA
In a 1988 essay (Rome and Palermo, centers of new music in the Sixties, «Musica/Realtà», 26, pp.
87-105) Daniela Tortora identified in the close collaboration that began at the end of the Fifties between
Roman and Palermo groups «an important and new phase in the history of contemporary music in Italy».
She therefore highlighted the events born in the following decade the «absolutely atypical cut»,
coming from «the broad multidisciplinary involvement that takes place within them». During the
seminar we will try to reconstruct some intersections along the Rome-Palermo axis and to deepen, with a
focus on the initiatives in Palermo, the interactions between music and the visual arts - but also literature,
cinema and theater - that characterized a context rich in impulses and ferments, "in which art utopia and social
utopia merge into a single subversive vision". In particular, we will focus on the close relationships
of Nino Titone, the inventor of the Settimane Internazionali Nuova Musica, with the exponents of the Roman
musical and pictorial avant-garde, on the interdisciplinary approach of the magazine «Collage» created by him together
with Paolo Emilio Carapezza and on the two exhibitions of contemporary painting (Revort 1 and Revort 2) set up
as part of the Settimane and open to the Italian reception of American Pop Art, as well as the new
optical, minimal, kinetic and conceptual currents.