The Many Meanings of Mina

Name: The Many Meanings of Mina
Brand: Unknown
SKU: 9781789385601
Price: 216.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

Popular Music Stardom in Post-war Italy

By Rachel Haworth

Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media

0.0 (0 reviews)

Summary

The Many Meanings of Mina by Rachel Haworth delves into the extensive career of Anna Maria Mazzini, known as Mina, a beloved Italian music icon. This book examines how Mina's stardom, blossoming from the late 1950s through the peak of the 1960s and 1970s, reflects and reveals the values and ideals of contemporary Italian society. Despite her retirement from public appearances in the late 1970s, Mina's enduring star status continues to be emblematic of the cultural and social narratives of Italy and beyond.
Read More

Format: Hardback

$216⁹⁹

AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks

Found a better price? Request a price match

The Many Meanings of Mina

$216⁹⁹

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

This insightful exploration will appeal to readers interested in contemporary Italian culture, popular music history, and the study of celebrity and stardom.

Mina is one of Italy’s best-loved pop stars. This book explores the significance of her star status in post-war Italy, and traces how the many meanings of Mina evolve as a result of different media forms she was involved in, which intersect and interact to produce new significances of the star throughout her sixty-year-long career. 12 illus.

Description

What the stardom of Mina says about contemporary Italian society.

The Many Meanings of Mina explores the fascinating career of Mina, born Anna Maria Mazzini, an Italian popular music icon whose sixty-year career has come to represent a range of diverse meanings. She is one of the best-loved popular music stars in Italy and abroad, maintaining a large fan base across Europe, Asia, and South America.

Her career began in the late 1950s and reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s. Despite having retired from public appearances in the late 1970s, Mina remains iconic to this day. Her star status is exemplary of how stardom is constructed and what it reveals about the society from which it springs.

This book analyses Mina’s star image and iconic status, tracing the process by which she has come to embody a revelation of the values and ideals of contemporary Italian society.

Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media

View all

The Many Meanings of Mina

By Rachel Haworth

Hardback

$216⁹⁹

Available
Ships in 3-4 weeks
Call Me by Your Name

Hardback

$285⁹⁹

Available
Ships in 3-4 weeks
Women's Work in Post-war Italy

By Flora Derounian

Hardback

$257⁹⁹

Available
Ships in 3-4 weeks

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

'Rachel Haworth’s monograph is the first substantial analysis of Mina’s career, and builds on her longstanding work on the singer. It considers the multiple facets of Mina’s star persona and the mechanisms of its construction over time, from her emergence in the late 1950s to the present. [...] Ultimately Haworth’s excellent book points forward to many more meanings of Mina, yet to be explored.' – Catherine O’Rawe, Modern Italy

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789385601

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 September 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Illustration: 12 Plates, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 621g

Pages: 272

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Rachel Haworth Series: Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media

About the Author

Rachel Haworth is a researcher of Italian popular music and culture of the twentieth century. She is interested in questions of stardom, gender, performance, and value in the Italian pop music context, and has published books and articles on Italian singer-songwriters of the 1960s, celebrity scandals, and Italian variety television.

The Many Meanings of Mina