Guest Editorial

Authors

  • Alessandro Cecchi University of Pisa
  • Maurizio Corbella University of Milan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.37317

Keywords:

Film Music Histories, Ethnographies, Italian cinema, 1960s

Author Biographies

  • Alessandro Cecchi, University of Pisa

    Alessandro Cecchi is Lecturer in Musicology and Music History at the University of Pisa. He obtained his Ph.D. in Musicology at the University of Pavia in 2007. His research interests cover music theory (Kurth, Schenker), musical aesthetics (Adorno, Benjamin), music and German literature (Thomas Mann, Wolfgang Hildesheimer), the symphonies of Bruckner and Mahler, the stage works by Luciano Berio, the history of film music in Italy (Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, industrial films of the economic miracle), the circulation of musical performance through media (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli), and the problem of contemporary musical listening. His publications include book chapters (Oxford University Press, Pavia University Press, Kaplan, LIM, Pacini, Astrolabio-Ubaldini, Enciclopedia Italiana), journal articles (Il Saggiatore musicale, Studi musicali, Music Sound and the Moving Image, Musica/Tecnologia, Aisthesis, Cultura tedesca), edited books (Routledge, NeoClassica) and guest-edited journal issues (Civiltà musicale, Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale) focused on the aforementioned topics. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Archival Notes: Sources and Research from the Institute of Music (Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice).

  • Maurizio Corbella, University of Milan

    Maurizio Corbella is senior lecturer in musicology at the University of Milan, where he received his PhD in 2010. He had previous appointments at the Universities of Vienna and Kiel and received research grants from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel. He co-chairs the Sound and Music in Media workgroup of the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). His chief interests and publications focus on music and sound in audiovisual media, popular music and cultural musicology. He has published articles on Italian film music, electroacoustic music in film, and the music biopic in international peer-reviewed journals (Music and the Moving Image, Cinéma&Cie, Cinémas, IASPM@Journal) and essays collections (Leuven University Press, Routledge). He co-edited (with Ilario Meandri) the special double issue "Music, Sound and Production Process in Italian Cinema (1950-75)" for the journal Musica/Tecnologia (2015). He is the English translator of Ennio Morricone: In His Own Words (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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Published

2019-09-09

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1-2: Special Issue: Film Music Histories and Ethnographies: New Perspectives on Italian Cinema of the Long 1960s

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Editorial

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How to Cite

Cecchi, A., & Corbella, M. (2019). Guest Editorial. Journal of Film Music, 8(1-2), 5-12. https://doi.org/10.1558/jfm.37317