Giovanni Sibilla

Tenured teacher

Department of Communication, Arts and Media
Faculty of Communication

Curriculum Vitae

A scholar of the relationship between pop music, the media and the cultural industry, at IULM he teaches the "Videoclip Laboratory" course, a subject he has been working on at the same University since 2004 with supplementary courses and exercises.
He graduated with a thesis on audiovisual semiotics and in 2001 he obtained a PhD in Applied Linguistics and Communication Languages from the Catholic University of Milan, with a thesis on the new forms of narration of TV and Cinema.
In 1999, he published for RAI/ERI "Musica da vedere: il videoclip nella televisione italiana" (Music to see: the videoclip on Italian television), the first book dedicated to the subject in Italy, born from a research project that ranked second at the Rai/VQPT "Giancarlo Mencucci" award the previous year.
He is the author of numerous essays and various scientific monographs on the musical media. Among the monographs: "I linguaggi della musica pop" (Bompiani 2003), "L'industria Musicale" (Carocci, 2006) and "Musica e media digitali" (Bompiani, 2008).
As a journalist, he has written and collaborates with national newspapers dealing with both music (Tutto Musica, Jam, Tribe, Musica! di Repubblica) and technology and digital (Wired, Class). In this field he has published several monographic volumes dedicated to artists (R.E.M., Soundgarden) and historical ("Legendary history of rock music", with Riccardo Bertoncelli).
Since 2001, he has been editor-in-chief of Rockol.it, a site for which he is responsible for the management and development of digital content related to music: reviews, interviews, videos, applications.

Main areas of scientific interest
Popular music Digital

media Cultural industry Music

television Media semiotics

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Publications

Monografie

2008 Musica e media digitali, Milano, Bompiani

2006 L’industria della musica, Roma, Carocci

2003 I Linguaggi della Musica Pop, Milano, Bompiani

1999 Musica da Vedere. Il videoclip nella TV italiana, Roma, Rai/ERI

Volumi come curatore/co-autore

2002 Francesca Chiocci, Peppino Ortoleva, Giovanni Cordoni, Gianni Sibilla, La grana dell’audio. Il sonoro nella televisione italiana, Rai/Eri

2001 Finestre sul mondo. Racconto e rappresentazione del Viaggio in Televisione, Roma, Rai

Saggi:

2016 “Dalle sigle a Shazam: la musica nelle serie TV”, in Le serie sono serie, a cura di Daniela Cardini, Milano, Arcipelago

2013 “I conquistatori? MTV, Videomusic e la via italiana alla videomusica tra anni ’80 e ’90” in Storie e culture della televisione italiana, a cura di Aldo Grasso, Mondadori

2010 “It’s the end of music videos as we know it (but we feel fine). Death and resurrection of Music Vides in the YouTube Age” in Rewind, Play, Forward: The Past, present and future of music video, a cura di Henry Keazor, Transcript-Verlag, 2011

2008 “La drammaturgia musicale e il videoclip nell'era di You Tube e dello User Generated content ”, in Drammaturgie Multimediali, a cura di Gianni Canova, Arcipelago

2005 “Rock the Vote? Le forme del rapporto tra comunicazione musicale e comunicazione politica”, Com Pol, Vol IV, numero 2

2004 “So empty whithout me. Intermediality, intertextuality and non-musical factors in the evaluation of pop music: The (not so) strange case of MTV and Eminem”, in Volume!, 2/2004, Editions de Séteun, Lyon, France

2003 “Musica leggera”, in Peppino Ortoleva, Barbara Scaramucci (eds), Enciclopedia della radio, Milano, Garzanti

2000 “Language is a Virus. Alcune tendenze del linguaggio della canzone degli anni novanta” , In Tradurre la canzone d’autore, Milano, Università Bocconi

1996 “Le vie dei canti della semiotica degli audiovisivi”, in Comunicazioni Sociali, 1

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