Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music and sound were intimately connected to changing social and political practices. The volume offers a critical redefinition of the core concept of soundscape, considering musical practices through the lenses of territory, space, representation, and identity, in five parts:
- Soundscape, Phonosphere, and Urban History
- Urban Soundscapes across Time
- Urban Soundscapes and Acoustic Communities
- Urban Soundscapes in Literary Sources
- Reconstructing Urban Soundscapes in the Digital Era
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 reframes our understanding of Italian music history beyond models of patronage, investigating how sounds and musics have contributed to the construction of human identities and communities.
Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, demonstrating how music and sound were intimately connected to changing social and political practices.
Introduction (FRANCO PIPERNO, SIMONE CAPUTO, AND EMANUELE SENICI) / PART
I: Soundscape, Phonosphere, and Urban History /
Chapter
1. Historical Urban
Phonosphere: Objects, Concepts, History (ANTONIO ROSTAGNO) /
Chapter
2. Some
Thoughts on (Early Modern) Sound, Space, and Time (TIM CARTER) /
Chapter
3.
Urban Soundscapes in Early Modern Italian and Spanish Cities: Confraternities
as Acoustic Communities (TESS KNIGHTON) / PART II: Urban Soundscapes across
Time /
Chapter
4. Early Modern Venice: Soundscapes and Identities (IAIN
FENLON) /
Chapter
5. Noise and Music Together: Soundscapes of Seventeenth-
and Eighteenth-Century Rome (SIMONE CAPUTO) /
Chapter
6. Interconnections
between Urban and Rural Phonospheres in Savoyard Sardinia (MARCO LUTZU AND
ROBERTO MILLEDDU) / PART III: Urban Soundscapes and Acoustic Communities /
Chapter
7. The Oar, the Trumpet, the Drum: Music and Galley Servitude in
Spanish Naples (NATHAN K. REEVES) /
Chapter
8. Piarist Resonances during the
Jubilees in Rome, 16251700 (ALDO ROMA) /
Chapter
9. Children Voices in the
Phonosphere: Valencia, 17141812 (ANDREA BOMBI) / PART IV: Urban Soundscapes
in Literary Sources /
Chapter
10. Notes from a City of Sound: Spiritual and
Secular Tourism in Venice and the Production of Its Urban Image in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (ANDREA CHEGAI) /
Chapter
11. Naples,
City of Sounds: Representing the Phonosphere of a Romantic Capital (MASSIMO
PRIVITERA) /
Chapter
12. From the Theatre to the Crowd: The Soundscape of
Milan in Giuseppe Rovanis Cento anni (18561869) (GRAZIELLA SEMINARA) /
CODA: Reconstructing Urban Soundscapes in the Digital Era /
Chapter
13. The
Este Soundscape Project: A Methodological Proposal
(ANGELA FIORE AND SARA BELOTTI)
Franco Piperno is Professor of Music History at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Simone Caputo is Assistant Professor of Music History at the Sapienza University of Rome.
Emanuele Senici is Professor of Music History at the Sapienza University of Rome.
