Cantacronache 1958-1962. Politica e protesta in musica

Abstract

At the end of the 50s the italian band from Turin, named Cantacronache, created social and political songs, so contributing to the birth of a new musical genre in Italy. The founders Michele Luciano Straniero, Sergio Liberovici, Emilio Jona, Fausto Amodei, Margherita Galante Garrone, were joined from the collaboration of writers and poets like Mario Pogliotti, Franco Fortini, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Gianni Rodari. The name of the group reveals its vocation: telling reality, writing songs about news facts in order to give them back to collective memory. Among the covered themes: italian news, Resistence, the research of social and political songs of the past or the recovery of the popular music heritage.

Keywords

• Cantacronache
• Social songs
• Political songs
• Italian popular music
• Protest songs