From "REBEL SONGS"
It lifts the veil of silence against the intellectuals. Historians and scholars working on the dark heart of Italian culture. Leo Valeriano fields Hobbits rediscovered art and passion.
There is a slice of culture, music, art, entertainment of our country which for half a century has been officially denied their existence. Is the culture right, even if it is misleading to call it that. Perhaps it would be more accurate to call it 'Alternative culture', but everyone can call it a bit 'as they like. So the result does not change. In the geometry of the 'politically correct' for some people just had no place. Otherwise the whole castle fell equation equal culture left, right equal ignorance stubbornly held for years by organic intellectuals of the Communist Party. In the seventies, but also before and after, there have been only the manifestations of art related to the so-called "constitutional period," but, fortunately, also other initiatives flavor and color. But while the manifestations of extra-parliamentary left have found a recognition (and sometimes even approving) officer, including opposite signs were routinely ignored. So singers the likes of Leo Valeriano (but not only him) held concerts, released albums, animated debates, but all strictly "live."
Never an echo in the press (the large size), or on TV (at that time there were only RAI 1, RAI-2 and, since 1979, including RAI-3). But life always wins, as she starred in "Jurassic Park" and more than thirty years later, the Berlin Wall fell, smashed the Soviet empire, the PCI vaporized, buried the hatchet with hammer and sickle that reappear here ... "the ghosts of the past." A term borrowed from song "My free hand," Beats by Lucio, who was and still is the most complete and well-known of the artists 'non-aligned'. But not the only one. They arrive in bookstores these days two essays that raise the veil of silence that for years rambling covered interesting cultural events that did not like the gurus of the 'arc constitutional. " One is dedicated to music, and more generally in the audience: "Our hand free. The neo-fascism and alternative music: political struggle and generational conflict in the years of lead ", a large and complex text (300 pages), Castelvecchi publisher, € 22. Co-written by two scholars: Cristina Di Giorgi Edmondo Ippolito and Ferrario is a detailed account of the cultural turmoil, let's call right, that animated the '70s. In total silence.
by bands like "The Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Friends of the Wind" a cabaret important, as Pippo Franco, describes the history of a culture that has moved through the meadows of the wineries of Hobbits Fields heart of the capital. All people that brought the hives to organic intelligentsia trombones red. So in the seventies have seen on TV a young Nanni Moretti fight (verbally for charity) with Mario Monicelli (it happened in 1977). But in addition to culture "Gruppettara" left there was an equally vigorous in different colors did not say no. Today there is a problem so the right-wing politics that grows and becomes more and more likely to look like a flying saucer landed from another planet. It is not so: those enzymes existed, grew and bore fruit. What we see today. In some cases quite dramatic, and joyous, as when Renata Polverini, newly elected president of the Lazio Region, sang in the streets, loudly, so sacred and liberating (although a bit 'out of tune) "I would like ... I do not want ... but if you want, "of Baptists.
decidedly more political 'Out from the rim. Travel in the Italian radical right, "a" block "the 380 pages of Professor Nicola Antolini. A historic "was Communist," which, with rigorous scientific approach, analyzed through interviews of the "black heart" in the seventies that animated the life of many cities deep. Antolini writes: "Often the story tends to mold itself to different forms, depending on who tells it. Not only are the interpretations and theories, but also the reconstruction of the facts may differ greatly in the different versions. " The word "revisionism" is ugly, but necessary. Until recently it was told a story which is missing a piece and not just the immediate postwar period. Today we start riappiccicare 'that song', although the organic trombones, this still makes me hives. And bought a cream.
Antonio Angels
Time - 11/08/2010
The floor of the garden is today a necessity if we are to become more welcoming and accessible to all our green space. 
