posts on the norient space by Francesco Fusaro

Some people think they know what Italian music is, until you really start to ask.

Philosopher and scholar Federico Campagna reflects on the cultural and anthropological context of late Baroque music in 1700s Europe and Italy, and explores the intersections between art, philosophy, and religion in the time of Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and his son, Giovanni Domenico.

This playlist is an audiovisual journey through the last 45 years of Italian music. Far from being a systematic overview of Italian heritage, this selection aims to outline a heterogeneous, if not divergent, landscape of sounds and music videos.

In this article, music scholar and producer Francesco Fusaro discusses one of his sample-based tracks. As he argues, it is through the voice that dance music has proven a fertile territory for the expression of the political and social concerns that underpinned its history from the very beginning.

A new generation of Italian trap has quickly re-appropriated the music and made it the most bottom-up, teenage-oriented repertoire to make it into Italian mainstream media and music charts in the last couple of years. Listen to a mixtape by Francesco Fusaro

Trap has conquered Italy's Charts with its own idiosyncratic take. Artists descended from immigrants raise political issues in an European society that is seeing ever-growing support of right wing ideas.