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Carlo Alessandro Nardi

CarloAlessandro.Nardi@unibz.it

Faculty of Education
Regensburger Allee 16 - viale Ratisbona, 16
39042
Brixen-Bressanone
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Short bio

Carlo Nardi is Lecturer in Music education and Sociology. He received his PhD in Musicology from the University of Trento with a dissertation on audio mastering. His work has focused on the use of technology from a sensory perspective, authorship and creativity in relation to technological change, the organisation of labour in music-making, community music, and sound for the moving image. Between 2011 and 2013 he was General Secretary of IASPM, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. He is a music performer, sound engineer and composer of music for the moving image.

Courses

Lab on Didactical Technologies with a Focus on Music, Art and Aesthetics

12430 · L-ART/07 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - German section · IT

Lab on Didactical Technologies with a Focus on Music, Art and Aesthetics

12430 · L-ART/07 · 5 year master degree in Primary Education - Ladin section · IT

Sociology of Social Change

97132 · SPS/08 · Bachelor in Design and Art - Major in Design · EN

Sociology of Social Change

97132 · SPS/08 · Bachelor in Design and Art - Major in Art · EN

Main Research Areas

Music education, community music, popular music, cultural studies, sensory studies, music for the moving image, critical theory

Selected publications

Nardi, C. & Roy, E. A. (2025). ‘Industrial panorama: Visualising labour practices in library music’. In Anonymous Sounds: Library Music and Screen Cultures in the 1960s and 1970s, ed. N. Johnston, J. Sexton, & E. A. Roy, New York and London: Bloomsbury, pp. 13–30.
van der Sandt, Johann and Nardi, Carlo (2024). ‘A pathway to inclusive social integration through singing: Preliminary findings from an ethnographic study in South Tyrol, Italy’. In Singing with Children: Vocal Pedagogical Perspectives, ed. Johann van der Sandt, FrancoAngeli, pp. 159–168.
Nardi, C. (2024). ‘The popular music repertoire in singing with children: A perspective bringing together community music and culturally responsive teaching’. In Singing with Children: Vocal Pedagogical Perspectives, ed. J. van der Sandt, Milano: FrancoAngeli, pp. 27–36.
Nardi, Carlo (2021). ‘The Shifting Discourse on Audio Mastering’. In Mastering in Music, ed. John Paul Braddock et al., London and New York: Routledge, pp. 215–229.
Nardi, Carlo (2020). ‘How to Study Record Production’. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Music Production, ed. Andrew Bourbon and Simon Zagorski-Thomas, New York and London: Bloomsbury, pp. 33–50.
Nardi, Carlo (2014). ‘Una teoria del formato audio per la musica dance elettronica’. Philomusica on-line, 13(2): 135–155.
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