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Archival songs as a cue for discussion and confrontation among scholars, artists, musicians and activists. A collective listening practice, aimed at the songs that accompanied the Italian colonial project, and that today reveal how sounds can (re)write history and at the same time reveal deep connections with modernity. During the talk, Italian songs from the colonial period will also be analyzed from the point of view of means of diffusion and media impact and recontextualized - through reflections and narratives - by Karima 2G and Luca Neves. Coordinators: Francesca Moretti and Gianpaolo Chiriacò.
Gianpaolo Chiriacò (1980, Italy), is a music anthropologist and scholar of singing. He is a researcher at the Archives of Popular Music at the University of Innsbruck, where he is in charge of the research project "Ethiopian Italian Relationships in Popular Music," where he coordinates the project "Listening to Italian Colonialism". Chiriacò's research focuses on the relationship between music and racism, and how cultural identities are defined and transformed through musical languages. His work has been presented at international conferences, publications, articles and seminars.
Karima DueG, pseudonym of Anna Maria Gehnyei, is a Liberian-born Italian singer, producer and beatmaker, DJ, writer and author. Her name refers to the "second generation" (DueG), the expression by which we generically refer to the children of immigrants, creatively subverting and reappropriating a label that traditionally has negative connotations. She debuted in 2014 with her solo project 2G (Soupu Music), crowned in 2018 with the release of Malala. She currently conceived and curated the multidisciplinary art project If There Is No Sun, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Dakar and the Italian Cultural Institute of Tunis. As a result of her artistic journey, she was awarded an international scholarship, and in just four years Karima graduated in 2021 with a bachelor's degree in Communications and Political Science.