Francesco Adinolfi

Gebundenes Buch

Mondo Exotica

Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation

Übersetzer: Pinkus, Karen

Beschreibung

The sounds and cultural obsessions of the space age/Cold War period and their reflection in the emergence of exotica and tiki culture.

Autor

Francesco Adinolfi is an Italian journalist and radio host. He oversees the production of “Ultrasuoni,” a weekly music supplement in Il Manifesto, one of Italy’s daily newspapers, and he hosts the radio show Popcorner, a mix of electro lounge, funk, and ultrabossa. Previously, he hosted Ultrasuoni Cocktail, a cult hit program on Rai Radio 2, Italy’s national station. The author of the book Suoni dal ghetto: La musica rap dalla strada alle hit-parade, he has written for magazines including Melody Maker, Sounds, and Record Mirror (Great Britain); Revoluciones Por Minuto (Spain), Music Express (Canada), Juke (Australia); and Crossbeat (Japan). Karen Pinkus is Professor of French, Italian, and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini’s Rome and Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism. Jason Vivrette is a graduate student in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780822341321
• ISBN-10: 0822341328
• Artikelnr.: 23369764