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Cantagiro 1968
Interprete Canzone 1 Caterina Caselli Il volto della vita (Daiano-Mogol-McWilliams) [Days Of Pearly Spencer/David McWilliams] – 1968 2 Gianni Morandi Chimera (Migliacci-Zambrini) – 1968 3 Dalida Un po’ d’amore (Hayward-Pace) [Nights In White Satin/Moody Blues] – 1968 4 Bobby Solo Siesta (Anelli-Pagani) – 1968 5 Dik Dik Il vento (Mogol-Battisti) – 1968 6 Gian Pieretti […]
1968 and the protest song
“[…] the Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano would have the merit not only of reviving the anarchist, socialist and communist repertoire (with many songbooks made up of the songs of I dischi del Sole) but also of providing the 1968 protest movement with a collection of political songs, while its organization and experiences would multiply and set […]
The origins of the italian songbook
Critics, historians, and scholars all agree that the Italian song was born in Naples. However, identifying a title that started that tradition is more complicated, if not downright impossible. Some have tried, others have distinguished the Neapolitan tradition from the Italian one, others have even widened their perspective to include in the genetic code of […]
Rock and Roll in Italy
American rhythms and dances had set foot in Italy in the 1920s, and an important strand of our song repertoire that exploded in the wake of World War II owes a fundamental debt to swing. In the 1950s, the process of Americanization proceeded even faster, and the new generations seeking change identified it in rock […]
SANREMO – THE 1990s
The Festival was no longer (only) a musical contest, but the event that best fit the national idea of television, and as such it crossed the yet extensive broad borders of the media universe to establish itself as a national-popular tradition. The 1990 edition again combined Italian and foreign artists, but it would be the […]
SANREMO – THE 1980s
In the years of mass hedonism, the Festival underwent a radical facelift to re-emerge from the doldrums in which it had been mired for some time. In 1980 the event climbed to eighth place among the most watched programmes and from the following year it would permanently settle in first place, surpassed only by Italy’s […]
SANREMO – THE 1960s
The decade began under the banner of compromises between crooners and “screamers”. Renato Rascel and Tony Dallara won in 1960 with Romantica; Luciano Tajoli and Betty Curtis in 1961 with Al di là, but the revelation of that edition was Adriano Celentano, who with 24milabaci introduced rock’n’roll on the stage of the Festival. The singer-songwriters […]
SANREMO – THE 1950s
The Festival of Italian Song made its debut on January 29, 1951 at the Salone delle Feste of the Casino of Sanremo under the guidance of maestro Cinico Angelini. The songs in the competition were twenty, the artists only three: Nilla Pizzi, winner with Grazie dei fiori, Achille Togliani and Duo Fasano. The Italian public […]
SANREMO – THE 1970s
In the early nineteen-seventies the popularity of the Festival was at its peak, and in 1972 it achieved its historical record, with 26 million viewers: almost one Italian out of two watched it. Then began a decline that saw it steer clear of the most vital ferments of those years, marked by political violence. The […]