Mario Bonanno, from Catania, deals with music and writes books and articles about Italian songwriters. He has worked in radio and television and published, among others, on the newspapers Terra and La Sicilia, on the national magazines Eventi, Film TV, Duel, Diario, Anna, left, and on Musica & Parole, quarterly in-depth study of themes and characters related to the song author, founded and directed by him for Bastogi.
Among his most recent essays: Roberto Vecchioni. Samarcanda (2010), Storie di dischi andati. La canzone d’autore al tempo del riflusso (2011), Che mi dici di Stefano Rosso? Fenomenologia di un cantautore rimosso (2011), Rosso è il colore dell’amore. Intorno alle canzoni di Pierangelo Bertoli (2012), Io se fossi Dio. L’apocalisse secondo Gaber (2013).
