The construction of identities through the small screen. The Sopranos and Italian popular music.
Abstract From a study of case linked to the TV series The Sopranos, this research is focused not only on the identification and treatment of musical stuff, but also in the analysis of how popular music is able to produce and to shape different world views taking into consideration a variety of generation profiles. Musical phenomenon creates far different emotions and states of mind: what we are going to examine and define here are the clearly stereotyped reactions, we have to recall that we are facing an audiovisual product, from the four generations present in the pieces of music under study. Furthermore, The Sopranos presents huge debates regarding identity issues and nationalism. It shows, specifically, the lack of connection between the Italian emigrant communities and their homeland that is an aspect related to the assimilation of the popular culture from the land in which they started to settle down in the beginning of the 20th century. Finally, we will examine the roles that media and cultural industry assume when defining the scenarios and attitudes understandable and established like normal by the audience. All in all, it results deeply suggestive up to what point the cinematographic reality matches with social reality or up to what point the first one intervenes decisively in the configuration of the second one.
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Johnson, M. L. (2007). Gangster Feminism: The Feminist Cultural Work of HBO's «The Sopranos». Feminist Studies, 33(2), 269-296.
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Ordaz, P. (2016). La Camorra imita a 'Gomorra'. El País. Recuperado de: https://elpais.com/cultura/2016/05/27/television/1464353920_558342.html.
Revert, J. (2011). Los Soprano en cinco tiempos. O cómo aprendí a dejar de preocuparme y empezar a amar al gánster. L'Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos, 11, 5-11.
Sardo, S. (1997-98). A pesquisa em Etnomusicologia e a problemática da identidade. Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, 7-8, 203-210.
Sheffield, R. (2016). 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time: from time-capsule sitcoms to cutting-edge Peak-TV dramas - the definitive ranking of the game-changing small-screen classics. RollingStone. Recuperado de: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-lists/100-greatest-tv-showsof-all-time-105998/the-sopranos-102911.
Tamburri, A. J. (2006). Thoughts on the «Diasporic» Culture of Italians in America: Here, There, Wherever. Italica, 83(3-4), 720-728.
Tomasulo, F. P. (2011). The Guinea as a Gangster Hero: The Complex Representation of Italian Americans in The 'Sopranos'. En D. Lavery, D. Howard y P. Levinson (Eds.), The Essential «Sopranos» Reader (pp. 196-207). Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
Pérez Borrajo, A. (2019). The construction of identities through the small screen. The Sopranos and Italian popular music. Popular Music Research Today: Revista Online De Divulgación Musicológica, 1(2), 133–147. https://doi.org/10.14201/pmrt.20640
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