The Image of Africa in Italian Music
From Objecthood to a New Subjectivity
The Image of Africa in Italian Music
From Objecthood to a New Subjectivity
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The Image of Africa in Italian Music proposes an innovative, fresh, provocative study, delving inside the common mentality of Italians, through their popular music and the way it has represented Africa and Africans. Italian music has largely followed national history, representing Africa as a mere object, from an inferior and inferiorized land of conquest to a slow process of decolonization of this image, which began around the 1980s and culminated with the irruption of second-generation Afro-Italian rappers into the Italian music scene. Through a careful analysis of the lyrics that is never detached from the historical context and sociological implications, the author shows how it was only with second-generation Afro-Italian rappers that provincial Italy had to come to terms with its present and its past. This musical movement gave rise to cultural, social and political debates that went far beyond the mere fact of music, involving other types of art, as well as proposing changes - such a new citizenship law - that are still struggling to take hold. Far beyond the image of 'Italians as good people', these rappers challenge us on a complex and slippery terrain: the construction of a new Italianness, overcoming clichés and stereotypes that one part of the country stubbornly continues to defend.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1. Theoretical Approach
Chapter 2. Methodology
Chapter 3. A Short Overview on the Image of Africa in Italian Culture: From Dante to the Dawn of Colonialism
Chapter 4. A First Approach to Africa: Popular Italian Music at the Beginning of Colonialism (1888-1912)
Chapter 5. Italian Popular Music in the Face of Fascist Colonialism
Chapter 6. The Representation of Africa after the Second World War: Africa as Absence (1940s-1970s)
Chapter 7. A Long Transition: From Africa as Metaphor to Africa as Reality (1980s-2000s)
Chapter 8. Decolonizing the Approach: Africa as a Subject (from 2000 to the present)
Chapter 9. After the 2G Network: The Second Generation Rappers between Commitment and Individualism
Chapter 10. Besides the African-Italia Rappers: The Representation of Africa between Continuity and Innovation
Final Remarks
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About the Author
Product details
| Published | Oct 02 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781978761216 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | The Frankfurt School in New Times |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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