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Gildo De Stefano[edit]
Gildo De Stefano is a musicologist and journalist beside being the art director of the Ragtime's Italian Festival. Expert of the musical universe in general, with a particular fondness for American music, he’s a first rate jazz authority and he graduated in Sociology of Mass Communication. Among his books there is the only history of ragtime music in Italy and in Europe, two editions, Trecento anni di jazz (, SugarCo Press, Milano), , Jazz moderno (, Kaos Press, Milano), , E.S.I. Press, Napoli, Il popolo del samba (, RAI-ERI Press, Roma), , , SugarCo Press, Milano). He has written monographs on , (Marsilio Press, Venezia), Vinicio Capossela (Lombardi Press, Milano), illustrated by Sergio Staino, (Lombardi Press, Milano), , (E.S.I. Press, Napoli), The Voice (Coniglio Press, Roma), a couple of books with the friendly contribution of the Italian showmen Renzo Arbore and Gianni Minà. He has collaborated with the RAI-Italian RadioTelevision, for whose broadcasting structure he has conducted various transmissions on the jazz, and with many newspapers and magazines, both Italian and foreigner. He regularly writes essays for the Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana (New Italian Music Journal) and collaborates with the Italian Encyclopaedia Treccani for entries on Afroamerican musicians. Among the many awards he won a National Prize of Journalism and he resulted one of the finalists of the literary Prize Calvino for unpublished works. He teaches Afroamerican Musical Civilisation in the Italian universities and music conservatories and he has just finished a biographical novel on Malcolm X, with a preface by Claudio Gorlier, the supervision of Robert Giammanco and an essay by Walter Mauro.
References[edit]
- Il canto nero (Negro Song), Gammalibri Press, Milano 1982
- Storia del Ragtime (Ragtime’ History), Marsilio Press, Venezia 1984
- Trecento anni di Jazz, (Three hundred years of jazz), musical anthropology of the blacks in America SugarCo Press, Milano 1986
- Jazz moderno (Modern Jazz), Kaos Press, Milano 1990
- Frank Sinatra, Marsilio Press, Venezia 1991
- Vinicio Capossela, Lombardi Press, Milano 1993
- Francesco Guccini, Lombardi Press, Milano 1993
- Louis Armstrong, E.S.I. Press, Napoli 1997
- Vesuwiev Jazz, E.S.I., Napoli 1999
- Il popolo del Samba (Samba’s People), RAI-ERI, Roma 2005
- Ragtime, Jazz & dintorni (Around Ragtime and Jazz), Sugarco Edizioni, Milano 2007
- The Voice. Vita e italianità di Frank Sinatra (The Voice - The life and italianism of Frank Sinatra), Coniglio Press, Roma 2011
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