Here Comes the Sign: The Semiotics of Popular Music (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783032028228)

Prof. Dr. Dario Martinelli (1974), musicologist, semiotician and composer, is Full Professor of History and Theory of Arts at Kaunas University of Technology, and is also affiliated to the University of Helsinki, as Adjunct Professor in Semiotics and Musicology, and to the University of Lapland, as Adjunct Professor in Methodologies of Semiotics and Communication Studies.

As of 2025, he has published sixteen monographs and ca. 200 among edited collections, studies and scientific articles. His most recent books include: The Beatles and the Beatlesque - A crossdisciplinary Analysis of Sound, Production and Stylistic Impact (Springer, 2023), The Intertextual Knot - An Analysis of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (Springer, 2021), What You See Is What You Hear - Creativity and Communication in Audiovisual Texts (Springer, 2020), Give Peace a Chant - Popular Music, Politics and Social Protest (Springer, 2017), plus a number of popular philosophy books and a collection of poems and song lyrics entitled Comporre e ricomporsi (WorteSekundant, 2025). He is also active in popular music as songwriter and recording artist, currently a member of the duo Jays & Ducks.

Martinelli has been recipient of several prizes, including, in 2006, a knighthood from the Italian Republic for his contribution to Italian culture.