This book is an interdisciplinary analysis of an art form that is crucial to the understanding of Italian contemporary society: political music from the 1960s to today. Using cultural studies, digital humanities and literary analysis, this book analyses a corpus of political music to offer insights into the sociolinguistic aspects of Italian.

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Giovanni Pietro Vitali is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at University College Cork, the University of Reading and New York University. He is also an associated researcher at the University of Oxford, where he is the Digital Humanities advisor on the project 'Prismatic Translation'.

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CONTENTS: Roots of the Phenomenon - New Popular and Political Music from Local to Global and from Traditional to Contemporaneous - Italian New Popular and Political Music and Literature.