Time is a variable that I handle badly. I organized the event referred to in the title in 2018 with the partecipation on site (Italy) of two beloved members of the 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 in the germane site to stereo2go: https://boomboxery.com/forum/threads/boombox-and-the-city.28093/ The volume, in black and white, has various sections, each preceded by an "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. each developing one of 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". Bearing in mind that I do not get any revenue (the book is financed by my institution), those interested in getting a copy of Boombox and the City can buy it here: https://www.gebonanno.com/product/boombox-and-the-city/
