Franco Fabbri
Franco Fabbri was born in São Paulo in 1949, from 1965 Fabbri was guitarist, vocalist and composer for Stormy Six, regarded as one of the most interesting Italian progressive bands, and one much admired by the specialist press: in 1980 the group received an award for best rock album of the year from the West German record critics, coming ahead of Police. In addition to making eight albums with Stormy Six, he recorded a number of works of electronic and experimental music. Accordi eretici and Mina.
Franco Fabbri
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- Born
- 1949 · São Paulo.
- Nationality
- Italy
- Occupation
- musician · musicologist · presenter
- Known for
- L'ascolto tabù. Le musiche nello scontro globale
- Languages
- English
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Franco Fabbri was born in São Paulo in 1949, from 1965 Fabbri was guitarist, vocalist and composer for Stormy Six, regarded as one of the most interesting Italian progressive bands, and one much admired by the specialist press: in 1980 the group received an award for best rock album of the year from the West German record critics, coming ahead of Police. In addition to making eight albums with Stormy Six, he recorded a number of works of electronic and experimental music. Accordi eretici and Mina.
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Una forza incantatrice and in the Einaudi Encyclopedia of music); and on musical genres, published in various books and international journals. Fabbri has served as chairman of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) and has been involved in the editing of the periodical "Musica/Realtà" and the "Le sfere" series of studies in music. Fabbri currently teaches at University of Turin as well as History of Popular Music at Parma Music Conservatory, and has also taught a course on the economics of the many aspects of music production as part of the Scienze e Tecnologie della Comunicazione Musicale (STCM) degree at the University of Milan. In 2017 he became visiting professor at the University of Huddersfield.
The recorded working language is English. Works named in the authority record are L'ascolto tabù.
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scholarly publication
- Franco Fabbri & Goffredo Plastino (eds.), Made in Italy: Studies in Popular Music, Volume !, 2017
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2017
- Franco Fabbri and Goffredo Plastino, eds. 2014. <i>Made in Italy: Studies in Popular Music</i> Journal of World Popular Music, 2015
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2015
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3751291: Franco Fabbri
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- “Franco Fabbri”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Bibliography printed in the source article · 8
- Elettronica e musica, Fratelli Fabbri, 1984
- Il suono in cui viviamo, Feltrinelli, 1996
- Fabrizio De André. Accordi eretici, Euresis, 1997
- Mina. Una forza incantatrice, Euresis, 1998
- Il suono in cui viviamo, Arcana Editore, 2002 (2nd edition)
- L'ascolto tabù, Milano, il Saggiatore, 2005
- Il Suono in cui viviamo, il Saggiatore, 2008 (3rd Edition)
- Around the Clock, UTET, 2008
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scholarly publication
Franco Fabbri & Goffredo Plastino (eds.), Made in Italy: Studies in Popular Music, Volume !, 2017Crossref registry
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Franco Fabbri and Goffredo Plastino, eds. 2014. <i>Made in Italy: Studies in Popular Music</i> Journal of World Popular Music, 2015Crossref registry
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q3751291: Franco FabbriWikimedia Foundation
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