Young, Educated and Cosmopolitan: A New Cultural Institution

  • Simone Varriale
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Abstract

This chapter reconstructs the socio-cultural transformations that made the rise of pop music criticism in Italy possible. Further, it reconstructs the social biography of Italian critics and how they drew new cultural distinctions between Anglo-American and Italian, valuable and debased popular music. Focusing on critics’ shared trajectories, resources and values, this chapter reveals that the aesthetic and generational character of their distinctions obscured the inequalities of education, class, gender and geographical location which marked the emergence of the music press (and the Italian ‘economic miracle’ at large).

Keywords

Cultural Capital Popular Music Economic Miracle High Secondary School Musical Style 
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  • Simone Varriale
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  1. 1.University of WarwickCoventryUK

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