On Rhythms and Rhymes: Poetics of Identity in Postcolonial Italy

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2020-04-29 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcz049

Michela Ardizzoni

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Music, media and the arts in general have become a prime site of deep cultural contestation and polarization in Italy, generating unprecedented fractures in how Italian identity is conceived and lived. This article examines how the borders of Italian identity have been gradually stretched and challenged in the music of contemporary artists such as Mahmood, Ghali, and Amir Issaa. Through their beats, their lyrics, and, in the case of Issaa, his writing, these artists have given voice to a facet of Italianness that is rarely spotlighted in the media. In this sense, these cultural productions complicate the Italian collective memory by adding a layered understanding of contemporary identities, rooted in different cultures, speaking different languages, and embracing a way of being Italian that is looking to the future through the lens of the country’s colonial past.

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论节奏与韵律:后殖民意大利的身份诗学

在意大利，音乐、媒体和艺术已经成为深刻的文化争论和两极分化的主要场所，在意大利身份的构思和生活方式上产生了前所未有的裂痕。这篇文章探讨了意大利身份的边界是如何在当代艺术家如马哈茂德、加利和阿米尔·伊萨的音乐中逐渐延伸和挑战的。通过他们的节拍，他们的歌词，还有，就伊萨而言，他的作品，这些艺术家们表达了意大利性的一个方面，而这个方面很少在媒体上得到关注。从这个意义上说，这些文化作品通过增加对当代身份的分层理解，使意大利的集体记忆复杂化，根植于不同的文化，讲不同的语言，并拥抱一种通过国家殖民历史的镜头展望未来的意大利方式。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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