Gildo De Stefano

Gildo De Stefano ( born 1953 in Naples ) is an Italian jazz author, journalist and music critic.

Life

De Stefano has worked as a music journalist, sociologist and music critic for the daily newspaper ROMA. He is also artistic director of the Italian festivals ragtime. He has a degree in sociology and communicative working with RAI since the early eighties together. In addition, he leads a program on jazz and has also published essays in Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana RAI. At various universities and conservatories he teaches courses on African- American musical culture and directs various creative writing workshops. He is considered a leading expert on Ragtime in Italy, where it is also one of the greatest jazz experts.

De Stefano is the author of the only two histories of ragtime, which have been translated in Italian and published by Marsilio Editori. In the nineties, he won a national award for journalism, which was awarded by the Ministry of Public Works, and he was among the finalists of the literary prize " Calvino ". It belongs to the National Union of writers and artists, often he teaches courses on creative journalism. He works with the Encyklopedie Treccani about African-American words and with several international journals such as the American CODA.

Works

  • African America American songs, gamma Libri edition, Milan 1982
  • History of Ragtime: origination, development, engineering, 1880-1980, Marsilio edition, Venice 1984
  • 300 years Jazz: 1619-1919 - The emergence of African-American music between sociology and anthropology, SugarCo edition, Milan 1986
  • Modern Jazz: 1940-1960 - The report by two creative decades, Kaos edition, Milan 1990
  • Frank Sinatra ( biography), Marsilio edition, Venice 1991
  • Vinicio Capossela, ( biography), Lombardi Edition, Milan 1993
  • Francesco Guccini ( biography), Lombardi Edition, Milan 1993
  • Louis Armstrong ( biography), foreword by Renzo Arbore, Italian scientific edition, Naples 1997
  • Vesuwiev jazz, Italian scientific edition, foreword by Renzo Arbore, Naples 1999
  • Il popolo del Samba: la vicenda an protagonisti della musica brasiliana Popolare. With a foreword by Chico Buarque. Rai - Eri, Rome 2005
  • Easy street story, L' Isola dei ragazzi edition, Naples 2007
  • Ragtime, jazz and more, foreword by Amiri Baraka, Sugarco edition, Milan 2007
  • The Voice. Italian life and character of Frank Sinatra, foreword by Renzo Arbore, Coniglio edition, Rome 2011
  • Social history of jazz, Foreword by Zygmunt Bauman, mimesis edition, Milan 2014
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