Week 8 - Feb 27: Rap and Roots: antagonism and multicultural trends in contemporary Italian music

Readings:

• Mitchell, Tony. “Fightin’ da Faida.” In Tony Mitchell, ed. Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop outside the USA. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001, pp. 194-221.

• Plastino, Goffredo. “Inventing ethnic music: Fabrizio De André’s Creuza de mä and the creation of Musica mediterranea in Italy.” In Goffredo Plastino, ed., Mediterranean Mosaic: Popular Music and Global Sounds. London/New York: Routledge, 2003(a), pp. 267-286.

Other resources:

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Jovanotti - Gimme five http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lfZMke6EXQ

Jovanotti - L'ombelico del Mondo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZY3bm93Wk4

Frankie Hi-NRG - Fight da faida http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln2C3g08MzU&ob=av2n

99 Posse - Curre curre guaglio' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxbDT7utD-g

Caparezza - Eroe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luvahAdmRU4&feature=related

Fabrizio De André - Jamina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rO2XtWg32s

Mau Mau - Ellis Island - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMipqXYKCGQ

Agricantus - Carizzi r'amuri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh5vrEKheH0

Dounia - Ghourba http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKYfZci9iq4

Almamegretta - Black Athena http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMXVp2b2jqk

Sud Sound System - La radici ca tieni http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsTQM4t76r8