“Quando Robert De Niro inizia ad impazzire”. La ricezione dell’hardcore americano nell’Italia degli anni Ottanta

Abstract

In the early 1980s, the crisis of punk gave rise to hardcore, which was characterised by its increased aggressiveness of performance and radical contestation of society. In America, hardcore immediately spread across much of the country, giving rise to various phenomena such as the spread of Do It Yourself with the self-production of records and tours; the proliferation of fanzines, the straight edge and skateboarding. These practices came to Italy, offering new forms of musical and political scene, which took the form of a more proactive attitude than that of the late 1970s. The article illustrates how Italian hardcore was influenced by American hardcore, which went hand in hand with British reference models in Italian punk.

Keywords

• counterculture
• fanzine
• hardcore
• punk
• usa