Gildo De Stefano

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Gildo De Stefano on the right with Renzo Arbore

Ermenegildo De Stefano (* in Naples ) is an Italian jazz writer, journalist and music critic .

Life

De Stefano works as a music journalist , sociologist and music critic for the daily ROMA . He is also the artistic director of the Italian festival Ragtime. He has a degree in communicative sociology and has worked with RAI since the early 1980s. He also runs a program on jazz and has edited essays in Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana by RAI. He holds courses on African-American musical culture at various universities and conservatories and directs various creative writing workshops . He is considered the leading expert on ragtime in Italy and is also considered a jazz expert there.

Gildo De Stefano receives the Campania Felix International Journalism Award from the President of the Jury

De Stefano is the author of the only two stories of ragtime translated into Italian and published by Marsilio Editori. In the 1990s he won a National Journalism Award given by the Ministry of Public Works and was among the finalists of the Calvino Literature Prize and received the Campania Felix International Journalism Award . He is a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists; he often gives courses on creative journalism. He works with the Treccani Encyclopedia on African American Words and with several international magazines such as the Canadian CODA.

Gildo De Stefano (second from left) with the Prix ​​Giancarlo Siani and the editors of the newspaper Il Mattino

Works

  • Il canto nero , Gammalibri, Milan 1982
  • Storia del Ragtime : origini, evoluzione, tecnica: 1880-1980 , Marsilio, Venice 1984
  • Trecento anni di Jazz: 1619-1919 - le origini della Musica afroamericana tra sociologia ed antropologia , SugarCo, Milan 1986
  • Jazz moderno:: 1940-1960: cronaca di un ventennio creativo , Kaos, Milan 1990
  • Frank Sinatra , Marsilio Editore, Venice 1991
  • Vinicio Capossela , Lombardi Editore, Milan 1993
  • Francesco Guccini , Lombardi Editore, Milan 1993
  • Louis Armstrong , Mr. Jazz , foreword by Renzo Arbore , Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples 1997
  • Vesuwiev Jazz , Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, foreword by Renzo Arbore, Naples 1999
  • Il popolo del Samba: la vicenda ei protagonisti della musica popolare brasiliana. With a foreword by Chico Buarque . Rai-Eri, Rome 2005
  • Easy street story , L'Isola dei ragazzi, Naples 2007
  • Ragtime, Jazz & dintorni , foreword by Amiri Baraka , Sugarco, Milan 2007
  • The Voice. Vita e italianità di Frank Sinatra , foreword by Renzo Arbore, Coniglio, Rome 2011
  • Una storia sociale del jazz: dai canti della schiavitù al jazz liquido , foreword by Zygmunt Bauman , Mimesis, Milan 2014
  • Saudade Bossa Nova : musiche, contaminazioni e ritmi del Brasile , preface by Chico Buarque , Logisma Editore, Firenze 2017, ISBN 978-88-97530-88-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.coda1958.com/
personal data
SURNAME De Stefano, Gildo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES De Stefano, Ermengildo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian jazz writer, journalist and music critic
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples