edited by Franco Piperno, Simone Caputo, Emanuele Senici (Routledge, 2023)
Lunedì 10 giugno, ore 17
Istituto Storico-Germanico (via Aurelia Antica)
10/06/2024
As part of the lecture series "Music/Culture/History," sponsored by the German Historical Institute in Rome, the volume “Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860”, edited by Simone Caputo, Franco Piperno, and Emanuele Senici (Routledge, 2023), will be presented. Divided into five sections (Soundscape, Phonosphere, and Urban History; Urban Soundscapes across Time; Urban Soundscapes and Acoustic Communities; Urban Soundscapes in Literary Sources; and Reconstructing Urban Soundscapes in the Digital Era), the volume brings together new research perspectives on the role played by music in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities between the 16th and 19th centuries. Starting from a critical redefinition of the concept of soundscape, the chapters in the volume investigate the role that music and sounds had in the construction of urban identities and communities, considering musical practices through the lenses of territory, space, and their representations.