THEOr I own a pop soul and I am proud of it. Even when I wanted to be accepted by the groups of the most intellectual boys I have never hidden my popular passions which also included the Sanremo Festival and Totò’s films.
On the other hand I am not alone, among many The most refined of the French writers, Marcel Proust: in the ‘Éologist of La Mauvaise Musiqueinvites you not to despise popular music because it has filled with the dream and tears of men … and its place is immense in the sentimental history of society.
Together with the music I allow myself to add cinema, television and all the forms considered sometimes subcultural which, in addition to having a place in the sentimental history of our country, somehow they united us and made us feel part of a community more than so many rhetorical speeches.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
Thus also think two brilliant authors, Lorenzo Luorini and Fausto Colombo that, in the book A common story. Because pop culture tells who we are (Mondadori), draw an unusual history of the unification of Italy by traveling through our popular culture in a path full of events in which we can only recognize ourselves and that make us feel page after page more and more at home, in a pleasant comfort.
It starts from food, eternal glue, that Thanks to the recipe book by Artusi Pellegrin Cortese has merged together languages and cultures in a tasty melting pot as a timbale. For the authors, the recipe is always in change but always the same whether they are films, TV programs or an old song: “We Italians are what we love”.
“A story in common. Because pop culture tells who we are” by Lorenzo Luorini and Fausto Colombo (Mondadori)
During the chapters No passion is neglected that has kidnapped our hearts and cheated more than the national National National. From the football of Italy Germany 4 to 3, to the western of Sergio Leone, from the successes of the 883, to Mickey, Paperinik and to the mythical Fantozzi, Reading the book is like watching a film that tells the minimum story of our country but it talks about us more than the great events than that with a capital S.
But this important emotional background includes Even the great narratives in music by Giorgio Gaber and Enzo Jannacci, and the theater of Dario Fo who told us another face of society by drawing without fear of pop art of entertainment. Tall and low, everything mixes in a carousel that composes our portrait Because “everything is not necessarily beautiful in popular culture … but every fragment is essential to make a country, to keep it together”.
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