Com’è profondo il mare (How Deep is the Sea) by Lucio Dalla

SERIES: “Sette album per raccontare un secolo” - Seven Albums to Tell a Century
SPEAKER: Ernesto Assante
DATE: Thursday 15 September 2022 at 6.00 p.m.
PLACE: Sala del Refettorio

The twentieth century was the century in which popular music changed its shape, meaning and soul, from pure entertainment it turned into art, it influenced culture, customs, language, created a market, told stories and accompanied history. From the second half of the twentieth century, the Italian song has experienced a further profound change, with a generation of songwriters who have been able to put together stories and history, tell private passions and collective feelings, give shape to dreams, visions, hopes and desires. Ernesto Assante tries to reconstruct the history of popular music of the twentieth century through seven albums: seven works of art to be told in their creation and for their impact, seven masterpieces that everyone should know and admire. Seven essential steps to understand what we have been and what we will probably become.

Journalist, music critic for Repubblica since 1978, television and radio author and presenter. In over forty years of activity, he has collaborated with numerous Italian and foreign weeklies and monthlies magazines, including Epoca, L'Espresso, Rolling Stone, and has created and been responsible for the supplements Musica,Computer Valley and Computer, Internet e Altro of Repubblica. He has worked as a radio presenter for RAI and as a television author for RAI networks. He was director of McLink, the first Italian Internet Provider, and created and directed the Repubblica.it project. He was among the founders and director of Kataweb. He is a contributor to Treccani for entries concerning popular music. Professor of Theory and Technique of New Media and Analysis of Musical Languages at La Sapienza University in Rom, he has written over thirty books on music and new technologies, published in Italy, England, France, Germany, the United States, Poland, and Holland.