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Although the canzone napoletana (Neapolitan song) is the best-known Italian popular music in the world, it is also the most misunderstood. It is mostly associated with operatic or quasi-operatic vocal styles, but all the other Neapolitan popular voices, the performance features and even the history of this musical genre are less well known. This essay in particular considers how the porous Neapolitan voice is a 'space' for complex negotiations between different musical styles, and how through this voice (that admits within itself the existence of other vocal styles) Neapolitan composers, musicians and singers articulate different relationships between music, history anti nostalgia.
Author(s): Plastino G
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Popular Music
Year: 2007
Volume: 26
Issue: 3
Pages: 429-440
Date deposited: 15/07/2010
ISSN (print): 0261-1430
ISSN (electronic): 1474-0095
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0261143007001365
DOI: 10.1017/S0261143007001365
