October 8, 2026 / 4.00 - 7.30 pm
A study seminar dedicated to the history of popular music and youth cultures in Italy between 1960 and 2000. The initiative, organized by the Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino and the Italian IASM, takes its cue from the research project "Popular music and youth cultures in Trentino from the 1950s to the present" and proposes a reflection on the relationship between music, society, identity and cultural transformations.
During the two days, scholars, musicologists and researchers will delve into themes ranging from beat music to cyberpunk, from popular music to museification, up to the Italian and Emilian punk scene of the 1980s. The programme also includes a presentation of the research project and a dialogue with The Bastard Sons of Dionysus, accompanied by music journalist Fabio De Santi. The seminar will take place at the Officina dell 'Autonomia in Trento and will also be available online.
Program
Thursday 8 October 2026
- 16.00–17.30
- Introductory greeting from Giuseppe Ferrandi, general director of the Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino.
- Presentation of the research project by Davide Leveghi, Mirko Saltori and Michele Toss.
- Jacopo Tomatis: Tell me with a record: popular music and material culture in Italy.
- 18.00–19.30
- Dialogue between The Bastard Sons of Dionysus and music journalist Fabio De Santi.
Friday 9 October 2026 - 10.00 am - 1.00 pm
- Nicola Del Corno: From beat to cyberpunk. A quarter of a century of Milanese countercultures (1965-1990).
- Fiamma Mozzetta: Popular music in museums or the museification of popular music?
- Hilde Merini: Emilian punk landscape of the 1980s. Memories, oral history and self-production between Modena and Reggio Emilia.
- Alessia Masini: Explosive paperwork: the sources of Italian-speaking punk.
- Conclusions by Jacopo Tomatis.
