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Across four chapters organized around the myths of the medieval hanged man, the cowboy, Jesus of Nazareth, and Fiddler Jones, Mythologist in Microgroove considers prevailing events and cultural shifts in Italy (1960s to 1980s) through the lyrics of Fabrizio De André in conversation with musicians, poets, and playwrights from Italy and abroad.

Made up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together or separates the past and the present, the public and the private, the center and the periphery. The present volume focuses on the interaction between the social processes and spatial forms that shape the identity of Italian cities. Using both canonical and less well-known texts along with cultural artifacts, the essays in the volume deprovincialize the Italian city, interpreting the material and symbolic practices that have made it into a unique entity whose enduring influence extends far outside Italy