Musica, Terza Missione e valorizzazione delle conoscenze

Edited by Luca Aversano

This volume presents a collective reflection by Italian university music professors on the contribution of their discipline to the development of the so-called Third Mission: from the methods of disseminating musical practices and knowledge inside and outside the so-called “academic walls” to the corresponding social, educational and political-cultural repercussions, also from the perspective of inclusion and the education of the musical public. The result is a rich and complex picture, which assigns music a leading institutional role in the field of university public engagement, both as a tool for socialising, cultural sharing and providing sound for academic events, and as a privileged vehicle — capable of speaking to the minds and hearts of the public — for humanistic and scientific knowledge.

It is therefore no coincidence that this first comprehensive collection of studies dedicated to the relationship between a specific disciplinary area and the Third Mission has a musical profile and was produced within the academic council of musicologists and ethnomusicologists: a small but significant first, which also inaugurates the new series of studies Crescendo founded by the Association of Italian University Music Teachers on the occasion of the celebration of its first thirty years of history (1994–2024).

Contributors: Con il contributo di: Luca Aversano, Milena Basili, Paola Besutti, Marco Bizzarini, Fulvia Caruso, Carla Cuomo, Maria Rosa De Luca, Mila De Santis, Paola Dessì, Emanuele Ferrari, Giovanni Giuriati, Giuseppina La Face, Andrea Malvano, Doriana Masucci, Elena Oliva, Franco Piperno, Ingrid Pustijanac, Donatella Restani, Graziella Seminara, Paolo Somigli, Claudio Toscani, Mauro Tulli, Grazia Tuzi, Antonio Uricchio