[Commlist] New book: The Many Meanings of Mina: Popular Music Stardom in Post-War Italy

Intellect is pleased to share that /The Many Meanings of Mina: Popular 
Music Stardom in Post-War Italy 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-many-meanings-of-mina>/*/,/* by Rachel 
Haworth, is available in hardback.

Mina (Anna Maria Mazzini, born Lombardy, 1940) is an Italian popular 
music icon who throughout her sixty-year-long career has come to 
represent a range of diverse meanings. She is one of the best-loved 
popular music stars in Italy and abroad, with 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 at the end of the 1970s, 
Mina remains popular and successful today, and continues to release new 
albums that consistently debut in the number one spot of the Italian 
charts. As an Italian popular music star, she is exemplary of the way in 
which stardom is constructed by different media and has come to 
represent different local and global identities, values, ideologies, and 
ways of behaving. This is because whilst Mina is first and foremost a 
popular music star, she has also been a film star and a television 
personality during different phases of her career. She has advertised 
successful Italian brands on television, and she has been a magazine 
writer and agony aunt. Her star persona is the product of her work in 
many different areas, as well as of the promotional materials and 
commentaries that are produced in response to her work.

This book explores these different ‘mediums’ that Mina has been involved 
in and which have shaped her career and significance. It traces the 
process by which she has come to embody a diverse range of meanings that 
reveal something of the values and ideals at work within contemporary 
Italian society.

Part of Intellect's Trajectories of Italian Cinema and Media 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/trajectories-of-italian-cinema-and-media> series.


*_Table of Contents
_*
*List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
*
*1.* /Signore, Signori, Mina!/: Mina as Popstar in Post-War Italy
*2. *Mina, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and the Sanremo Festival
*3.* Mina and the /Musicarelli/
*4.* Scandal, Tragedy, and Mina’s Star Image
*5. *A Star of the Small Screen: Mina and RAI
*6.* Mina as /Carosello /Star
*7. *Picturing a Star: The Changing Face of Mina on Album and Single Covers
*8.* Mina Today: The Ever-Present Absent Star

*Conclusion
Bibliography
Index**
*

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