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“My style is strictly Italo”: A History of Italian Hip-Hop

Zammarchi, Enrico
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1574612200487536

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
This dissertation project looks at the history of hip-hop culture in Italy between the early 1980s and the mid-2000s, with the purpose of constituting a valuable addition to both the fields of Italian Studies and Cultural Studies. Existing scholarship on Italian hip-hop has focused primarily on the emergence of this culture out of Italy’s centri sociali (social centers)—a period that roughly corresponds to the years that go from 1989 to 1994—paying little attention to everything else. In contrast, I propose to expand this analysis and include both what happened before that period and, most importantly, what happened after it. By doing that we could see how Italy’s youth has often relied on this culture to express some of its preoccupations regarding questions of identity; this is particularly true for those who approached hip-hop in the 1980s, when it was not yet a known phenomenon, but also for those who took advantage of hip-hop’s popularization and mainstreaming, in the second half of the 1990s. Finally, discussing questions of identity in relation to hip-hop culture and Italy’s youth also means analyzing the ways in which Italian society has changed since the early 1980s, and how its population has reacted to the presence of immigrants, second generations, and other subjects who are perceived as non-normative, and who have come to increasingly be present in Italy. Ultimately, this dissertation supports the idea that hip-hop in Italy can and should be looked at in terms of one cultural form of experimentation in revolution and change.
Barry Shank (Advisor)
Dana Renga (Advisor)
Philip Armstrong (Committee Member)
Clarissa Clò (Other)
323 p.
Comparative; Ethnic Studies; European Studies; Foreign Language; Language Arts; Music
hip-hop; Italy; music; subculture;

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  • Zammarchi, E. (2019). “My style is strictly Italo”: A History of Italian Hip-Hop [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1574612200487536

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Zammarchi, Enrico. “My style is strictly Italo”: A History of Italian Hip-Hop. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1574612200487536.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Zammarchi, Enrico. "“My style is strictly Italo”: A History of Italian Hip-Hop." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1574612200487536

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