Elena Messana

Contributor

elena-2@ondarock.it

Elena Messana is a writer and podcaster passionate about music and the social history of media. She has written podcasts on art history and corporate training, but her favourites are Rock and the city and Rock and the city Berlino, due out in May 2025. She adores the 1980s (the politically engaged ones!), autobiographies, people's voices and recording studios — partly, no doubt, a professional quirk, given that she spent twenty years working in dubbing supervision.
In her stories there are no boundaries between pop, rock and classical music, cinema, urban planning, modern art, album covers, advertising, everyday life, science and poetry.

Monographs and interviews

Angela Baraldi		Int Interview
Massimo Zamboni		Int Interview

Miscellaneous

In-Depth

Guido Harari - Guido Harari, 50 years of photographs to look at at full volume

From rock stars to Italian singer-songwriters: Vicenza's Basilica Palladiana hosts the celebrated photographer's exhibition until July 26th. Our report

In-Depth

PFM - "Una vita da fuggiasco", the sacred fire of a restless musician

A documentary tracing the history of the legendary Lombard musician is coming to theaters, spanning Pfm, De André and solo projects

In-Depth

Franco Battiato - Il lungo viaggio – Battiato's thousand identities in a biopic

We watched the biopic on the Sicilian singer-songwriter, coming soon to cinemas (and later on Rai1). A film that reflects on the free spirit of an elusive artist