Overview
- Provides a detailed account of the links between production of popular culture to the rise of populism
- Contributes to studies on populism and popular culture in Italy
- Uses a comparative approach and a cultural sociology perspective
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology (PSEPS)
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Reviews
“Music is a source of collective effervescence and identity that analysts tend to regard as tangential to the study of politics. In their multi-method study of Italian pop music and populism, Manuela Caiani and Enrico Padoan place music at the center of their analysis. This engaging and important book examines how political actors from Matteo Salvini to the Five Star Movement rely on common taste in music to generate feeling of national emotion. Researchers on populism should read this careful and fast paced analysis and learn that music is constitutive of politics that moves the people.”
—Mabel Berezin, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for European Studies, Cornell University
“This deeply researched and endlessly fascinating book tells of the complex relationship between populism and popular music in Italy. But it does more than this. It reveals how – in general – we might understand better the role of music in politics, and therole of politics in music.”—John Street, University of East Anglia
“The intersection of populist mobilization and cultural production is an under-researched theme in our field. Caiani and Padoan, with their methodologically rich and empirically rigorous contribution on the connection between popular music and populist politics in Italy, have offered as a prime example of how to fruitfully fill this gap.”
—Paris Aslanidis, Lecturer of Political Science, MacMillan Center & Department of Political Science, Yale University, USA
The book is a methodological feast, insightfully operationalizing the sociocultural approach to populism and problematizing populism’s relation with a central element of today’s mass culture: popular music. This serious study of the multifaceted, two-way relationship between popular music and populism in Italy transfigures what many political scientists might regard as irrelevant noise into melodic variations calling for serious analyticdiscussion. In addition to the expected “flaunting of the low”, with displays of authentic rudeness and of scandalizing tastes, we learn of the flaunting of the “Italian average” by politicians and of regional identities and dialects at rallies. Travelling aesthetically from appeals to the popolare (Rocco Hunt’s pisciaiuoli and fruttaioli) to the low poetry of Senza Pagare, and socio-geographically and perhaps politically from Veneto’s local bands to Campania’s rappers--all, so different from Com’è profondo il mare, branded by the high-left Sardines--the volume not only provides a superb analysis of contemporary Italian culture and society, but also, richer insights into their close relation to pre-political sensibilities and—most crucially—to the current spatial structure of Italian party politics than could any cartesian diagram.
—Pierre Ostiguy, University of Valparaíso
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Enrico Padoan is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Social, Political and Cognitive Sciences (DISPOC) of the University of Siena, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Populism and (Pop) Music
Authors: Manuela Caiani, Enrico Padoan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18579-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18578-6Published: 07 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-18581-6Published: 08 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-18579-3Published: 06 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 286
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Popular Culture , European Politics