Sources for Season 2

This season draws on original ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Italy (2021-2023, 2025), including interviews and participant observation. All interviews are anonymized and are not listed here in order to protect participants’ privacy.

Books and Academic Sources

  • Adorno, Theodor W. “On Popular Music.” In Essays on Music, edited by Richard Leppert, translated by Susan H. Gillespie, 437–469. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

  • Adorno, Theodor W., and Max Horkheimer. Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Edited by Gunzelin Schmid Noerr. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.

  • Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. London: Verso, 2006.

  • Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” In Illuminations, edited by Hannah Arendt, translated by Harry Zohn, 217–251. New York: Schocken Books, 1968.

  • Coccoluto, Salvatore. Lucio Dalla: La vita, le canzoni, le passioni. Rome: Diarkos, 2020.

  • Dayan, Daniel, and Elihu Katz. Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992.

  • Daughtry, J. Martin. Listening to War: Sound, Music, Trauma, and Survival in Wartime Iraq. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

  • Foot, John. The Archipelago: Italy Since 1945. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.

  • Gay y Blasco, Paloma. “‘It’s the Best Place for Them’: Normalising Roma Segregation in Madrid.” Social Anthropology 24, no. 4 (2016): 446–461.

  • Ginsborg, Paul. A History of Contemporary Italy: 1943–80. London: Penguin, 1990.

  • Harbert, Benjamin J. Instrument of the State: A Century of Music in Louisiana’s Angola Prison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.

  • Jachia, Paolo. “Le liriche di Roberto Roversi per le canzoni di Lucio Dalla (1973–1975): Un’analisi critica e testuale.” Strumenti critici 39, no. 3 (2024): 669–688.

  • Kornbluh, Anna. Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism. London: Verso, 2024.

  • Santoro, Marco, and Marco Solaroli. “Authors and Rappers: Italian Hip Hop and the Shifting Boundaries of Canzone d’Autore.” Popular Music 26, no. 3 (2007): 463–488.

  • Santoro, Marco. "The Tenco Effect: Suicide, San Remo, and the Social Construction of the Canzone d'Autore." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 11, no. 3 (2006): 342–366.

  • Valeri, Mauro. Che razza di tifo: Dieci anni di razzismo nel calcio italiano. Rome: Donzelli, 2010.

  • Vignoli, Daniele, and Silvana Salvini. “Religion and Union Formation in Italy: Catholic Precepts, Social Pressure, and Tradition.” Demographic Research 31, no. 35 (2014): 1079–1106.

Articles and Web Sources

Reviews and Media Commentary