Gildo
De Stefano
is a musicologist and journalist beside
being the art director of the
Ragtime's Italian Festival. Expert of the musical universe
in general, with a particular fondness for American
music, he’s a first rate jazz authority and he graduated in
Sociology of Mass Communication..Among his
books: Il Canto nero
(Negro Song, Gammalibri, Milano),
Storia del ragtime (Ragtime’ History,
Marsilio, Venezia) the only one in Italy and in Europe, two editions,
Trecento anni di jazz (Three hundred years of jazz,
SugarCo, Milano), musical anthropology of the blacks in America, Jazz moderno (Modern
Jazz, Kaos, Milano), Vesuwiev Jazz
(E.S.I., Napoli), Il popolo del samba(Samba’s People, RAI-ERI, Roma), Ragtime, Jazz & dintorni, (Around
Ragtime and Jazz, SugarCo, Milano).
He has written monographs on Frank
Sinatra (Marsilio, Venezia), Vinicio Capossela (Lombardi, Milano), illustrated by Sergio Staino,
Francesco Guccini (Lombardi, Milano), Louis Armstrong (E.S.I., Napoli),
The Voice (Coniglio, Roma), a couple of books with the friendly contribution of the
Italian showmen Renzo Arbore and Gianni Minŕ. He has
collaborated with the RAI-Italian RadioTelevision, for whose
broadcasting structure he has conducted various transmissions on the
jazz, and with many newspapers and magazines, both Italian and
foreigner.
He regularly writes essays for
the Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana (New Italian Music
Journal) and collaborates with the
Italian Encyclopaedia Treccani
for entries on Afroamerican musicians. Among the many awards he won
a National Prize of Journalism and
he resulted one of the finalists of the literary PrizeCalvino
for unpublished works. He teaches Afroamerican Musical
Civilisation in the Italian universities and music
conservatories and he has just finished a biographical novel on
Malcolm X, with a preface by Claudio Gorlier, the supervision
of Robert Giammanco and an essay by Walter Mauro.
