Time is a variable that I handle badly. The event referred to in the first half of the title of this post took place in 2018 and saw the active presence on site of two beloved members of this community, docs and Lasonic TRC 920, They animated the Boombox Walk event. It took some time before the experience became a book. It has just been published, but it's much more than the catalogue of the 2018 exhibition, which is documented here:
boomboxery.com
The volume, in black and white, has various sections, each preceded by a joint Introduction written by myself and co-author, a urbanist and a boombox lover. One describes the interdisciplinary experience that in 2015 I undertook in collaboration with him in our respective universities. Another documents the exhibition and the four collateral events that took place in Catania six years ago. However, Boombox and the City is mainly a collection of essays. which develop the topics dealt with in one of the 2018 events: the round table entitled Radio-Active. Urban Space in Motion, featuring myself, co-author, and two scholars of Cultural Studies and Design and Technology. The postface is signed by an illustrator who holds a PhD in architecture and is a boombox enthusiast. Last but not least, the book has a sixteen-pages signature in color. It collects photos - by a professional photographer, myself and co-editor - of units from my collection in the slums of Catania. We couldn't help naming this bonus section Boombox and Graffiti.
Despite its academic background, the volume is written in a very accessible style, the goal being that of coupling research with maximum dissemination. In order to reach a wider audience, the book is a bilingual edition, Italian and English. Among the texts that accompany the black and white images, you can find testimonies from docs and Lasonic TRC 920, and notes by people who contributed to the four events: the French-Italian performer hhybrydd (with his Laid Bare installation and performance) and the singers -- my students, two of them, Reiwa and Gemma, are now professionals and commute on a regular basis between Italy and the UK -- that closed the exhibition with their Out of the Box concert.
For those interested in getting a copy, Boombox and the City can be found here:
www.gebonanno.com
Boombox and the City
Eventually things came to a head... In 2014 (or was it earlier? I don't think so but who knows?) I wrote on the other forum that I had in mind a boombox exhibition, possibly the first ever in Italy. However I was after a certain number of models I would have loved to show, surely members would...
boomboxery.com
The volume, in black and white, has various sections, each preceded by a joint Introduction written by myself and co-author, a urbanist and a boombox lover. One describes the interdisciplinary experience that in 2015 I undertook in collaboration with him in our respective universities. Another documents the exhibition and the four collateral events that took place in Catania six years ago. However, Boombox and the City is mainly a collection of essays. which develop the topics dealt with in one of the 2018 events: the round table entitled Radio-Active. Urban Space in Motion, featuring myself, co-author, and two scholars of Cultural Studies and Design and Technology. The postface is signed by an illustrator who holds a PhD in architecture and is a boombox enthusiast. Last but not least, the book has a sixteen-pages signature in color. It collects photos - by a professional photographer, myself and co-editor - of units from my collection in the slums of Catania. We couldn't help naming this bonus section Boombox and Graffiti.
Despite its academic background, the volume is written in a very accessible style, the goal being that of coupling research with maximum dissemination. In order to reach a wider audience, the book is a bilingual edition, Italian and English. Among the texts that accompany the black and white images, you can find testimonies from docs and Lasonic TRC 920, and notes by people who contributed to the four events: the French-Italian performer hhybrydd (with his Laid Bare installation and performance) and the singers -- my students, two of them, Reiwa and Gemma, are now professionals and commute on a regular basis between Italy and the UK -- that closed the exhibition with their Out of the Box concert.
For those interested in getting a copy, Boombox and the City can be found here:
Boombox and the city - Bonanno - Gruppo editoriale Bonanno srl
Il boombox e? uno degli accessori della cultura di massa che fra la fine degli anni settanta e la prima meta? degli ottanta diventa icona dello hip hop. Presente nei cinque continenti, come suggerisce la sua comparsa antartica in The Thing di John Carpenter (1982), questo prodotto di consumo si...
www.gebonanno.com
