The Image of Africa in Italian Music

The Image of Africa in Italian Popular Music is an innovative, well-documented and provocative study which explains the how Africa and Africans are portrayed in Italian music, and how African-Italian musicians contribute to the decolonization of Italian music and became the new protagonists of the public life of an entire European nation.

Luca Bussotti is Professor at the Technical University of Mozambique, with teaching experiences in Italy, Portugal, Brazil and Mozambique. He has matured a long experience in Italian as well as in African Studies, privileging an approach centered on political and cultural analysis. He is the author of a complete history of Italian citizenship (La cittadinanza degli italiani, Angeli, 2002), of the book Minoranze e multiculturalismo nell'Italia contemporanea (IBIS, 2013), on the formation of a multicultural society in Italy and in Europe, of a study on the U.S. policy in Austral Africa during the Cold War (Dal sabotaggio alla cooperazione, printed by the University of Trieste, Italy, 2024) and (with Gianfranco Giovannone) of a book on diversified cultural aspects of Africa (Sguardi sull'Africa, IBIS, 2024). He has also edited about 20 books and written almost 100 articles in international journals, including about 10 on issues related to music, in Africa as well as in Italy.