Thursday 21 March 2024 at 6.30 PM – Italian Institute of Culture, Pavilion Hall
Do you remember some films from the 1950s and 1960s known as “musicarelli” where emerging singers of the time, the so-called “screamers” performed? Do you recall the long-haired “hippies” for whom hair constituted a political and cultural battleground?
In a rich and entertaining analysis, author Cecilia Brioni in her book “Fashioning Italian Youth: Young people’s identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958–75” (256pp. Manchester University Press, 2023) identifies various trends of the 1960s and early 1970s – such as the “hippies” mentioned above – that were depicted and stigmatized by the Italian media and society as social “groups.” The presentation, in conversation with Professor Clodagh Brook (TCD), is the third in the series “Style and Fashion in Italy“, which will feature in 2024 further events on the history of fashion and television in Italy. Free admission but limited seats available.
Event in English. Free entry.
ABOUT
Cecilia Brioni is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Aberdeen. Her research explores the history of representations of Italian youth in the 20th and 21st centuries in a variety of popular media, including film, television, print media and social media. Her current research focuses on self-representations of youth, ethnicity, gender and sexuality on the video sharing platform YouTube Italia. Her most recent publications include the monograph Fashioning Italian youth: young people’s style and identity in Italian popular media, 1958-75 (Manchester University Press, 2023).
Clodagh Brook is a Professor in Italian. She was educated at Oxford University (D Phil) and at University College, Dublin (BA and MA). She was Reader at The University of Birmingham (Russell Group) before taking up her position at Trinity College in 2017. Professor Brook was awarded Fellowship of Trinity College in 2022
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