Il trattamento della musica nei blog culturali generalisti italiani

The treatment of music in Italian multidisciplinary cultural blogs. Since the birth of the World Wide Web, cultural debate has gradually spread also in digital telematic media, as well as in traditional paper-based ones. Italy, in particular, has seen the birth of several multidisciplinary cultural blogs since 2010. In this article I focus on the treatment of music in this kind of media, which are to be distinguished from similar formats dedicated primarily to music, as well as from non-blog formats. I consider the following three blogs (in order of foundation): minima&moralia (2009); doppiozero (2011); Le parole e le cose (2011). In search for affinities and differences, constants and peculiarities, and in continuous comparison with the habits of music criticism in traditional media, I study their respective strategies with regard to the following points: - art forms treated by critical discourse (literature, cinema, music, etc.); - musical genres treated by critical discourse (Western art music of all eras, folklore, jazz, popular music, etc.); - ontological types of musical object (live or reproduced or directly technologically-produced music; music pure or mixed with other art forms; single or grouped pieces); - textual formats (differentiated by length, material structure, content organization, etc.); - methodological approaches (specialized or popular; inherently musical or non-musical); - professional characteristics of the authors (critics already active in traditional media or newly enrolled; specialists or non-specialists).