Franco Fabbri (born 1949) is a

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musician,

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and broadcaster. Born in

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in 1949, from 1965 Fabbri was guitarist, vocalist and composer for Stormy Six, regarded as one of the most interesting Italian progressive bands, and one much admired by the specialist press: in 1980 the group received an award for best rock album of the year from the

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record critics, coming ahead of

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. In addition to making eight albums with Stormy Six, he recorded a number of works of electronic and experimental music. As musicologist, Fabbri has published on the rapport between music and technology (''Elettronica e musica''); on music as a 360° phenomenon (''Il suono in cui viviamo'', recently reprinted in an expanded version by Arcana Editore); on the analysis of popular song (in ''Fabrizio De André. Accordi eretici'' and ''Mina. Una forza incantatrice'' and in the Einaudi Encyclopedia of music); and on musical genres, published in various books and international journals. Fabbri has served as chairman of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)International Association for the Study of Popular Music
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as well as History of Popular Music at Parma Music Conservatory, and has also taught a course on the economics of the many aspects of music production as part of the ''Scienze e Tecnologie della Comunicazione Musicale'' ( STCM) degree at the

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. As a broadcaster he became well known as one of the presenters of the RAI Radio3 series ''Radio Tre Suite''. In 2017 he became Visiting Professor at the

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Bibliography

* ''Elettronica e musica'', Fratelli Fabbri, 1984 * ''Il suono in cui viviamo'', Feltrinelli, 1996 * ''Fabrizio De André. Accordi eretici'', Euresis, 1997 * ''Mina. Una forza incantatrice'', Euresis, 1998 * ''Il suono in cui viviamo'', Arcana Editore, 2002 (2nd edition) * ''L'ascolto tabù'', Milano, il Saggiatore, 2005 * ''Il Suono in cui viviamo'', il Saggiatore, 2008 (3rd Edition) * ''Around the Clock'', UTET, 2008

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1949 births Living people Academic staff of the Parma Conservatory Academic staff of the University of Turin Italian rock singers Italian musicologists Italian radio presenters Italian rock guitarists Italian male guitarists Brazilian emigrants to Italy Musicians from São Paulo {{italy-musician-stub

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