About this Event
Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Annual Conference
Notes on Work. Music, Literature and Labour in Postwar Italy
Day 2: Fri 1 May
Room SG2, Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site)
9-11: Panel 1: Bodies at work, voices at work
Rachel Love Giovanna Daffini’s Labour in Song
Rachel Haworth La Biblioteca di Studio Uno (1964) and the Unseen Labourof Bringing Literature and Music to the Italian Small Screen
Silvia Garzarella “Practical Instructions” for Poetry and Dance: Machinic Composition in the Work of Nanni Balestrini and Valeria Magli
Elisa Biagini and Marta Gentilucci Exploring Mines, Collecting Memories
11-11:30: Tea and coffee
11:30-12:30: Keynote Lecture
Alessandro Portelli Roma forestiera. Migrant Music as the New Folk Music of Italy
12:30-14: Lunch
14-15:30: Panel 2: Experimenting within and beyond the factory
Jonathan Impett Music and Class – The Naïve and the Sublime
Olivier Tonneau Music, Work and Transgression :Christophe Dejours and the New Italian Musical School
Ilaria Favretto and Nico Pizzolato
Towards an Auditory History of the Factory: Sonic Experience and Struggle on the Shopfloor
15:30-16: Tea & coffee
16-18: Panel 3: Material and Immaterial Archives within and beyond Italy
Salvatore Morra Hearing “Tripoli 1969” as Italian Migrants, Repatriates and Future Refugees
Jacopo Tomatis The Atlas of Antagonist Discography.Italy: 1958-1980
Ed Emery Understanding my Record Collection:Italian Political Vinyl of the 1960s and ‘70s
Erica Bellia Voices from Abroad:Importing Labour Songs and Poems in Postwar Italy
18-18:30: Closing remarks
Festa (TBC)
The conference can also be attended remotely via Zoom. Please contact the convenors if you have any accessibility requirements and if you wish to receive the Zoom link.
Convenors: Erica Bellia and Robert Gordon (Italian Section, MMLL Faculty, University of Cambridge)
The event is generously sponsored by the Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund and ASMI (Association for the Study of Modern Italy), and organised in collaboration with OBERT (Observatoire Européen des Récits du Travail / European Observatory of Labour Narratives)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 7 West Road, Cambridge, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
