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Identité(s) et mémoire(s) dans la Cantata popular Santa María de Iquique
Full text linkThe Cantata popular de Santa María de Iquique is one of the most important musical compositions of Quilapayún. Composed by Luis Advis in 1969 it tells the story of the massacre of the Iquique mineworkers in 1907. This cantata popular has become not only one of the symbols of the protest songs from the Seventies but also an icon for the universal struggle against injustice. The aim of this article is to study its history and different meanings in order to show the way how poetry, lyrics and music come together to tell the identities and memories of the Chilean people until now, when we celebrate its 50th anniversary
« L(’)Égalité veut d’autres lois » Légalité, légitimité, et parole pamphlétaire chez Eugène Pottier.
Full text linkThis article intends to analyze the literary transcription of themes and structures in the work of Eugène Pottier which revolve around the fact of being an outlaw. Pottier, a French socialist songwriter of the 19th century, is best known for being the author of “L’Internationale”. The article also tries to show how protest songs can deal with the question of being against the law
Mikis Theodorakis : la rencontre éternelle de la Poésie et de la Musique
Full text linkPoetry and Music. Music and Poetry. Two expressions of one unique sensitivity, that of the great contemporary Greek composer, politician and philosopher, Mikis Theodorakis (born 1925). The union of Poetry and Music came about when Mikis Theodorakis put to music the poem of an unknown poet, “The little boat” (To καραβάκι), in 1937. Throughout his life, Theodorakis has constantly set to music the works of the greatest Greek and foreign poets, such as Odysseus Elytis, Yannis Ritsos and Pablo Neruda. Through their poetry, Theodorakis has been able to sing a mother’s tender love as well as the sadness of a solitary man, the darkness of a concentration camp or the serenity of a Cycladic landscape. Yet, there are times when the poetic words of other poets do not suffice and so he, himself becomes the poet. When? Why? What are his motifs and his intentions? The aim of this article is on the one hand to highlight the poetic creation of Mikis Theodorakis – an expression of eternal humanism – through an anthology of poems written in Greek during periods of extreme violence. On the other hand, to reveal the new musical forms which were born of the union of Poetry and Music and to stress the role of the performers-interpreters in the transmission of theodorakian music throughout the world
Mina, la canzone pan-europea e gli ‘interpreti generalisti’
Full text linkAt only 24 Mina was already an adult oriented performer: in 1964 she released her first ‘international’ album including cover versions of standards and current hits in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. It was a turning point with respect to her earlier rock ‘n’ roll recordings, and it impacted on the level of her public’s taste, familiarizing Italians with a fashionable, global songbook. The article aims at demonstrating the pioneering role that the Italian star played in shaping a pan-European repertoire, along with a string of singers from various countries who were active in the same time frame considered – late Fifties to 1970. What I call ‘generalist performers’ (Caterina Valente, Petula Clark, Nana Mouskouri, Julio Iglesias, Dalida, Mireille Mathieu, Udo Jürgens) dominated the continental market with unprecedented figures, performed in many languages and recorded a great number of LPs and singles outselling almost any other artist over a couple of decades. They were all – Mina among the first– ambassadors of genres, traditions and fads coming both from the Anglo-American world and exotic places, whose central role in establishing a transcultural songbook still has to be recognized
Nicole Botti: Il baule del Furioso. La fortuna del poema ariostesco nel melodramma. Lucca: Maria Pacini Fazzi, 2018. ISBN 9788865506226. 362 pagine.
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Rap-poesia: un nuovo genere a metà tra versi e barre
Full text linkThe relationship between poetry and song has evolved over time, especially on the linguistic level. While, previously, it was the song that looked at the Italian language of the traditional poetry as a model, today, with the birth of instapoetry (a new type of poetry currently very popular thanks to social networks), it seems to be the other way round. The Italian language used by instapoets, in fact, has many common points with rap language, so that, from a linguistic point of view, we can imagine a new hybrid genre in which the boundaries between the two arts become increasingly blurred: rap-poetry
Tra parodia e decostruzione: i ‘duri’ di Fred Buscaglione
Full text linkWith his ironic songs about “pistols, puppets and whisky” (Lanotte 2007, 68), whose protagonists – gangsters and tough guys – he literally embodied in his live performances, thus establishing a very specific performance persona (Auslander 2004), the singer and jazz musician Fred Buscaglione was particularly successful in Italy in the second half of the 1950s. The following article wants to point out, in a first step, the gender stereotypes and other elements originating primarily from US popular culture and film noir, which fit together in his performance persona. It will then be shown how these tough guys and gangsters are undermined and deconstructed within the song lyrics, on the level of what Auslander calls the characters, through the intervention of female figures no less tough than the male ones
