Singer-Songwriter and Poetry

Song and Society: Poetry, Voice, and Popular Culture (1930–1980)

Poetry

Songs

French chanson

American Folk

fromJan 19, 2026toJan 19, 2026

Song and Society: Poetry, Voice, and Popular Culture (1930–1980)

The song as a political and sentimental diary of the century. From French chanson (Brel, Brassens, Gainsbourg) to American folk (Dylan, Cohen), to Italian singer-songwriters (De André, Tenco, Battisti, Battiato). The connections between poetry and harmony, the birth of the singer-songwriter genre, and its civic role: the voice as a tool for collective consciousness.

Professors

Music critic, writer, radio host

Felice Liperi

Felice Liperi is a radio host and curator of programs such as Stereonotte, Fahrenheit, and Sei Gradi. A historian of Italian song, he has been a music critic for La Repubblica for over thirty years and is the author of essays for Limes, MicroMega, and the Treccani Encyclopedia of Music. His most recent publications include La canzone italiana. Storia, storie, protagonisti (Treccani, 2025).

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