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Biographical profile
Lucio Spaziante is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Language Theory at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna, where he teaches in the area of semiotics. He obtained a PhD in Semiotics under the supervision of Umberto Eco and Paolo Fabbri, and subsequently taught and researched at various Italian universities (Ferrara, Modena and Reggio Emilia, IULM) and abroad (UCL Belgium, France, Great Britain, UCSD United States, Waseda Japan). He was Secretary and then Vice President of the AISS (Italian Association for Semiotic Studies).
Main publications
Among the published volumes are:
Remix-Remake. Practices of Replicability (2006, with Nicola Dusi);
Sociosemiotics of Pop: Identity, Texts, and Musical Practices (2007) and Pop Icons.
Identity and appearances between semiotics and music (2013).
Among the latest publications:
The Infinite Version: Re-edition as Re-semanticization, «Versus», (2022);
The study of musical subcultures: disciplinary perspectives, social transformations, aesthetic changes (with Paolo Magaudda), «Studi Culturali» 2022;
The Relationship Between Sound and Image in Music Videos, "Aesthetics. Studies and Research," 2022
Research interests
He conducts research in the field of media, audiovisual language, music, and youth cultures.