Qualche parola e un po’ di musica
Ebbene sì, sono solo canzonette e niente più… “però entrano, sono entrate, entreranno nelle nostre giornate insieme con le esperienze, gli odori, i sapori, le cose dette e ripetute, le cose prese e buttate.”
In short, the songs are important, rather important in the history of costume and feelings of a company are the minimum messages that accompany our daily lives, we mark the day, the heat there, say the happy moments and less happy existence. They are the soundtrack of our human and without them, the songs, our time would be poorer and more gray ...
1911. Chorus passionate final high
According to the census of that year, Italians are almost thirty-six million, more than ten million farmers and four workers.
There is neither land nor jobs for all.
And here is the myth of the "fourth shore" means a land beyond the sea, to colonize in order to give bread and work for those who do not have it.
Thus was born the colonial adventure, wanted by the petty bourgeoisie and the popular strata in the South.
The mainstream press is all in support of the company and also all intellectuals.
The same mild Giovanni Pascoli Barga disguises herself as a warmonger, "the great proletarian moved."
sing But what the Italians? Core 'ngrato or authors, in fact, two emigrants, Riccardo and Salvatore Cardillo Cordiferro that words and music dedicated to Enrico Caruso and ushered in the genre of song-ballad, very popular in the years close to the Great War.
sings Caruso, Gigli sings: Chorus passionate, high note.
1915. We are already at war
at breakneck speed to the war.
is demonstrated by this surdato O 'nnamurato , a march by the military look and pace, that in a short span of months, it had become the unofficial anthem of the sharpshooters.
until several years later reinterpreted superbly by Anna Magnani , will be reduced to its true raison d'être di canzone d’amore, di lontananza e di nostalgia.
1925. Italia, Paese dei campanelli
Mentre gli italiani assistono impotenti agli ultimi sussulti dello stato liberale e si consumano, una a una, le residue garanzie della democrazia parlamentare, niente di più comodo che raccontare del favoloso Il paese dei campanelli , situato più o meno dalle parti dell’Olanda, dove campane e campanelli, appunto, hanno il vezzo di cominciare a suonare quando mogli e fidanzate sono sul punto di tradire their men ...
A tale of escape as usual, carried out with graceful Art Nouveau style by the master Ranzato, violinist with Toscanini at La Scala, and performer of renown.
The first de The village bells " is 23 November 1923.
On 13 of the same month, the Senate had approved, a very narrow majority, the new electoral law that abolished the proportional representation system and reintroduced the majority.
All this happened almost ninety years ago, of course.
Milan, December 1925, the two leading exponents of operetta nostrana, Carlo Lombardo and Virgilio Ranzato attempt to repeat the success achieved together with the village bells . And here, for an audience in the mood of easy exotica, the story of Cin-Ci-Là , and sailed pretty French actress, who, at that of Makao, amid numerous misunderstandings, he manages to complete the sentimental education of Prince Cyclamen and Myosotis, his betrothed fiancée and inexperienced. Finished and happy wedding parties throughout Makao.
In Rome, however, only a week after the first of Cin-Ci-Là has passed a law on the prerogatives of head of government, responsible for its own political action only source of the king. On the same day a decree stipulates that public officials who do not give full guarantee of faithful discharge of their duties or arise under conditions of incompatibility with the general directives of the government, can be fired.
1935. Fascism is a consolidated
Fascism is now a system widely established.
In elections a year earlier, in a plebiscite, almost all of the Italians gave their assent.
country proceeds apace in the militarization of the economy and society.
Declaring war to Ethiopia.
The League of Nations - the UN at that time - Italy decides to apply economic sanctions that are used to mobilize public opinion and launched the "campaign for gold to his country "at the end of which is collected millions of wedding rings.
to go against the current, dominant in the swamp of conformism, they are really very few: some group workers, some intellectuals.
In May, in Turin, during a raid are under arrest Giulio Einaudi, Cesare Pavese, Carlo Levi, Norberto Bobbio.
evasive disengagement and the passions of Italians in the thirties: cinema, finally enriched by the sound and, needless to say, the song.
Then when the first is intertwined with the second, success is assured.
is the case of Do not forget me, a film, which, in the memory film, no trace would remain, were it not for the eponymous song, sung by none other than Beniamino Gigli, acting goofy, but great content for sweetness of tone and warmth of expression.
Radio, Italic other great passion in those years, multiply this success, amplifies it, takes him to a half million families, many radios in Italy at the end of that decade.
Alfredo Bracchi D'Anzi and John are a couple that lasts several decades in the history of Italian song.
Both belong to the world of stage and light entertainment, and they must recover if the song in Milan positions and importance compared to Neapolitan and Roman.
Di Giovanni D'Anzi is the famous Madonina of both the heartfelt Nostalgia de Milan, written in 1938.
But the song in the vernacular was produced and then close their language patterns and unforgettable lyrics: Girls love (1934), but his legs (1938), Miss big names (1938), performed by Trio Lescano; You're not my baby (1938), Silent slow (1940); You, divine music (1940).
not forget my words and 1937 and is a significant example of the "Novecento style, which pervades so many songs in the second half of the thirties, lithe, languid and well paced.
1939. La Campagnola beautiful music by blacks against
" dawn, when the sun comes,
all there in Abruzzo d'or ...
the prosperous peasant
descend into the valleys blossom ...
or Campagnolo beautiful
you're the princess;
the sun is shining in your eyes,
c 'is the color of violets,
valleys all in flower! ...
If you sing your voice
is a harmony of peace,
that spreads and says
if you want to be happy,
you have to live up here ...
Return of a low and lingering sensitivity Arcadian or anticipation of green issues / environment?
Neither one nor the other case: rather the alignment covered songs of the authors of the directives of the regime, not only engaged in the battle of the grain, the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, nell'autarchia food ... but also the ethical standards of a costume tended to Americanize and, therefore, in the eyes of the regime and the Cape to become corrupt.
In controversy with the swing and jazz with , criminalized as "music by blacks," and with all the fashions from overseas, which are considered corrosive of healthy national costume, the the lyrics are filled with prosperous paesanelle, Rosabella of Molise, roads of the forest, to shepherd lovers, Italic safe bastions of hard work and morality.
God, country and family, attacked in the city, always lost and sprawling for authors songs of the era, are taken into a campaign sound revenge.
sample on a Neapolitan folk song of the sixteenth century (according to others Abruzzo Sicilian second and more), founded in 1939, the first song of "rebellion"
Of Maramao ... because you're dead is the prolific author Mario Panzeri, which will be accused of having alluded to the recent departure of one of the big scheme, that Costanzo Ciano, whose tomb, in the Assyrian-Babylonian style, lies, even now, on the sea \u200b\u200bof \u200b\u200bLivorno.
A portare al successo la triste storia in versione swing di Maramao, aristogatto del 1939, saranno le sorelle olandesi, ex acrobate, Sandra, Giuditta e Caterinetta Leschan, che italianizzeranno il cognome in Lescano.
Un trio destinato a fare epoca: bruttine anzichenò, le sorelline debbono il loro successo non certo all’aspetto fisico, ma a un formidabile senso del ritmo, all’accento esotico – a metà tra il mitteleuropeo e l’inglese – e alla radio.
Accanto alla novità, come sempre la tradizione.
Here "Florence dreams" , success of Tuscan ditty, sung by Carlo Buti, famous example of regional song, a genre that will last at least until the early sixties.
1938. Revenge of Kramer
Gorni surname, Kramer named by a father-affibbiatogli cycling fan and admirer of the German champion Frank Kramer, was a great accordionist, jazz musician among the best of our country and the first in the world to do with the popular jazz accordion.
cost him dear as from 20 June 1938 of its instrument music was no longer self-sufficient EIAR radiated by the microphones.
Perhaps Pippo does not know it is the subtle revenge for the exclusion of Gorni Kramer: in fact, even the voice of the people assigned to that syncopated tune, and that text is a surreal sense of rebellion against leaders of the regime in general and Starace in particular that, as head of the Voluntary Militia for National Security, was obsessively visible in the years close to war.
1945. Naples, Italy metaphor
Mattinata fiorentina But love and no , are respectively 1941 and 1942 and being on a scenario already devastated by war.
the grief associated with each conflict is joined by two unpublished, negative news: the nightmare of bombs and starvation.
On 30 September 1941 the daily ration of bread is brought to 200 grams head will fall to 150 in the coming weeks.
In the spring of 1942, ten million people are below the minimum diet.
And then, to forget, nothing better than calling a Florence never existed, a heartthrob April Messer, Florentine Madonnas so generous in their thanks, as distracted to the point spread in the fields of fine delle Cascine hairpins ...
A text that could lead to success in those days, only a singer who was also a character!
is the case of Milan's Alberto Rabagliati, unlucky descendants of Rudolph Valentino, chosen by the Fox film from more than 800 thousand candidates to his legacy.
singer in the Blue Star Pippo Barsizza since 1930, had performed in Paris in a complex of South America. Back in Italy had achieved a deserved success with the famous radio broadcast Canta Rabagliati the only one capable of removing at least for a while 'the concerns of the war.
But love is not always Giovanni D'Anzi will however not only the soundtrack of the film by Mario Mattioli Tonight nothing new 1942, but also for the epochal events of our country.
the Allied landing in Sicily, the fall of fascism, the Badoglio government, the armistice on 8 September, the struggle to regain national dignity of the events are intended to remain in the memory of older people linked to the sad and sensual voice of a young and beautiful Alida Valli.
will certainly not surprising if in the days confused and troubled post-war era, text and sound, songwriters and musicians feel the need to reconnect with tradition, with the best national tradition, that of Naples.
of 1945 is the sorrowful Munasterio 'e Santa Chiara , is reminiscent of the terrible bombing of the basilica of Naples in August 1943, both fast and do not always understand the changes taking place d' work in costume, behavior, life styles of Naples, the Italians, the people.
sing and Naples sue rovine materiali e morali Giacomo Rondinella e Roberto Murolo: e mai, come in questo caso, la città del golfo è veramente metafora di tutta l’Italia.