Notes on Work | Day 2

A conference on the intersections between music, literature and labour in postwar Italy

Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Annual Conference

Notes on Work. Music, Literature and Labour in Postwar Italy

Day 2: Fri 1 May

Room SG2, Alison Richard Building (Sidgwick Site)

9-11: Panel 1: Bodies at work, voices at work

Rachel Love Giovanna Daffini’s Labour in Song

Rachel Haworth La Biblioteca di Studio Uno (1964) and the Unseen Labourof Bringing Literature and Music to the Italian Small Screen

Silvia Garzarella “Practical Instructions” for Poetry and Dance: Machinic Composition in the Work of Nanni Balestrini and Valeria Magli

Elisa Biagini and Marta Gentilucci Exploring Mines, Collecting Memories

11-11:30: Tea and coffee

11:30-12:30: Keynote Lecture

Alessandro Portelli Roma forestiera. Migrant Music as the New Folk Music of Italy

12:30-14: Lunch

14-15:30: Panel 2: Experimenting within and beyond the factory

Jonathan Impett Music and Class – The Naïve and the Sublime

Olivier Tonneau Music, Work and Transgression :Christophe Dejours and the New Italian Musical School

Ilaria Favretto and Nico Pizzolato

Towards an Auditory History of the Factory: Sonic Experience and Struggle on the Shopfloor

15:30-16: Tea & coffee

16-18: Panel 3: Material and Immaterial Archives within and beyond Italy

Salvatore Morra Hearing “Tripoli 1969” as Italian Migrants, Repatriates and Future Refugees

Jacopo Tomatis The Atlas of Antagonist Discography.Italy: 1958-1980

Ed Emery Understanding my Record Collection:Italian Political Vinyl of the 1960s and ‘70s

Erica Bellia Voices from Abroad:Importing Labour Songs and Poems in Postwar Italy

18-18:30: Closing remarks

Festa (TBC)

The conference can also be attended remotely via Zoom. Please contact the convenors if you have any accessibility requirements and if you wish to receive the Zoom link.

Convenors: Erica Bellia and Robert Gordon (Italian Section, MMLL Faculty, University of Cambridge)

The event is generously sponsored by the Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund and ASMI (Association for the Study of Modern Italy), and organised in collaboration with OBERT (Observatoire Européen des Récits du Travail / European Observatory of Labour Narratives)