The many meanings of Mina : popular music stardom in post-war Italy / Rachel Haworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haworth, Rachel, author.

Series:

Trajectories in Italian cinema and media

Trajectories of Italian cinema and media series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mina, 1940-.

Mina.

Popular music--Italy--History and criticism.

Popular music.

Italy.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xix, 240 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Intellect ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Summary:

Mina (Anna Maria Mazzini, born Lombardy, 1940) is an Italian popular music icon who throughout her sixty-year-long career has come to represent a range of diverse meanings. She is one of the best-loved popular music stars in Italy and abroad, with a large fan base across Europe, Asia, and South America. Her career began in the late 1950s and reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s.Despite having retired from public appearances at the end of the 1970s, Mina remains popular and successful today, and continues to release new albums that consistently debut in the number one spot of the Italian charts. As an Italian popular music star, she is exemplary of the way in which stardom is constructed by different media and has come to represent different local and global identities, values, ideologies, and ways of behaving. This is because whilst Mina is first and foremost a popular music star, she has also been a film star and a television personality during different phases of her career. She has advertised successful Italian brands on television, and she has been a magazine writer and agony aunt. Her star persona is the product of her work in many different areas, as well as of the promotional materials and commentaries that are produced in response to her work.This book explores these different 'mediums' that Mina has been involved in and which have shaped her career and significance. It traces the process by which she has come to embody a diverse range of meanings that reveal something of the values and ideals at work within contemporary Italian society.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Signore, Signori, Mina!: Mina as Popstar in Post-War Italy

2. Mina, Rock V Roll, and the Sanremo Festival

3. Mina and the Musicarelli

4. Scandal, Tragedy, and Mina's Star Image

5. A Star of the Small Screen: Mina and RAI

6. Mina as Carosello Star

7. Picturing a Star: The Changing Face of Mina on Album and Single Covers

8. Mina Today: The Ever-Present Absent Star.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical refences (pages 221-233) and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781789385601

1789385601

OCLC:

1314331700