Paolo Conte: Italian 'arthouse exotic'

Mitchell, T

Paolo Conte: Italian 'arthouse exotic'

Mitchell, T

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Popular Music, 2007, 26 (3), pp. 489 - 496
Issue Date:: 2007-12-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Mitchell, T	en_US
dc.date.issued	2007-12-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Popular Music, 2007, 26 (3), pp. 489 - 496	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0261-1430	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/1506
dc.description.abstract	Paolo Conte is the most internationally successful of the Italian singer-songwriters who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. He is also among the most idiosyncratic, eclectic and unusual exponents of what Franco Fabbri has defined as the canzone d'autore (author's song). Nonetheless he remains a rather arcane, cult figure in the Anglophone world - an example of what Simon Frith has called 'the unpopular popular'. A combination of apparent opposites - the provincial and the cosmopolitan - his music appropriates a global sweep of influences without being definable as 'world music'. Characteristics of both his rough, untrained singing style and wry, ironic and opaque compositions have strong affinities with US singer-songwriters like Tom Waits and Randy Newman, and he draws heavily on early American jazz influences, although he remains quintessentially Italian. This makes him difficult to categorise in the world music market. Copyright © 2007 Cambridge University Press.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Popular Music	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1017/S0261143007001390	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Music	en_US
dc.title	Paolo Conte: Italian 'arthouse exotic'	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.citation.volume	26	en_US
utslib.for	2002 Cultural Studies	en_US
utslib.for	1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing	en_US
utslib.for	2001 Communication and Media Studies	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
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pubs.volume	26	en_US

Abstract:

Paolo Conte is the most internationally successful of the Italian singer-songwriters who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. He is also among the most idiosyncratic, eclectic and unusual exponents of what Franco Fabbri has defined as the canzone d'autore (author's song). Nonetheless he remains a rather arcane, cult figure in the Anglophone world - an example of what Simon Frith has called 'the unpopular popular'. A combination of apparent opposites - the provincial and the cosmopolitan - his music appropriates a global sweep of influences without being definable as 'world music'. Characteristics of both his rough, untrained singing style and wry, ironic and opaque compositions have strong affinities with US singer-songwriters like Tom Waits and Randy Newman, and he draws heavily on early American jazz influences, although he remains quintessentially Italian. This makes him difficult to categorise in the world music market. Copyright © 2007 Cambridge University Press.

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