Disco, House and Techno: Rethinking the Local and the Global in Italian Electronic Music Paolo Magaudda
IASPM05 - ROME Disco, House and Techno: rethinking the local and the global in Italian Electronic Music Paolo Magaudda The question at this point is how to conceive the 1. Introduction: electronic music, globalization, and the Italian periphery relationship between local and global in a musical field - electronic music – in which this relationship is much he relation between globalization and local music less clear than it is in original and locally-rooted music. Tis a spicy question in today’s popular music And, more specifically, how to rethink the local-global studies, as well as in wider contemporary cultural relationship in analyzing musical forms which do not theory. Arjun Appadurai, for example, discussing the present an explicit characterization of their locality “modernity at large”, brings to light the example of through direct aesthetic features, as happens with the ability of Filipinos to reproduce American melodic traditional or ethnic instrumentations or with the use of songs in a better way than Americans do (Appadurai, a specific language. More generally, it is necessary to 1996, p. 48). From a more musical point of view, the examine the global-local dialectic of these musical forms, ethnomusicologist Steven Feld pointed out how the probably the first product of the accelerated processes effects of globalization on world music have been in transnational flows of technology, media and popular viewed by scholars with a contradictory opposition culture - as far as musical instruments, musical styles, between anxiety about the commodification of original and ways of listening are concerned – and particularly cultures and celebration of the positive hybridization of of what is happening in popular electronic music.
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