Ermenegildo De Stefano (born in Naples Italy) is an Italian journalist, music critic and musicologist. He specializes in African-American music. He is a music journalist, sociologist, and critic for the Italian daily Roma and art director of the Italian Festival of Ragtime.
He earned a degree in Sociology of Communications.
He began collaborating with RAI Radio in the 1980s, for which he conducted jazz programs and regularly published essays on Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana published by RAI.
He organizes courses of Afro-American music and Creative Writing workshops in various Italian universities and music conservatories including San Pietro a Majella.
He is the author of the only ragtime history in Italian language, published by Marsilio Editori (Venice) in two editions, in 1984 and in 1991. In the mid-1990s, he won a national prize for journalism of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to coincide with the arrival among finalists of literary Prize Calvin , and in the 2018 the Campania Felix International Journalism Award.
He collaborates with the Foundation for the Encyclopedia Italiana Treccani for African-American voices and other international journals as the Canadian CODA magazine . [1]
He is a member of the National Union of Writers and Artists. [2]
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