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- The pop and rock scene started to flourish in the 1950s, as rock and pop charts were introduced all over the world to rate what records the public were buying. It was this decade that saw the definition of rock and pop as we know it started to really flourish. In Italy, the 1950s saw the dawn of a radical shift in the types of music available.
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Feb 19, 2014 · Debuting on 29th and 30th January 1951, the Sanremo Music Festival showcased Italian music talent in the form of a contest. For the first Festival, 20 songs would be performed by only three singers. The amount of acts would greatly increase in the future, as would its global reputation.
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John Bensalhia continues his look at Italian pop music with...
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Recorded popular music began in the late 19th century, with international styles influencing Italian music by the late 1910s; however, the rise of autarchia, the Fascist policy of cultural isolationism in 1922 led to a retreat from international popular music.
Jul 21, 2014 · Two notable examples of this new direction of pop music flourished in Italy in the late 1980s. Lorenzo Cherubini would adopt the name of Jovanotti and take his own unique brand of hip hop, rap and disco into the upper reaches of the charts.
- John Bensalhia
Apr 26, 2020 · Italian music, and Italian pop music in particular, has seen many changes over the past forty years. I still remember the songs that characterized my youth: Volare, by Domenico Modugno, Sapore di Sale, Abbronzatissima!, Fatti mandare dalla Mamma, Azzurro.
May 26, 2014 · The 1960s were widening the vocabulary of the song lyric, by introducing social, political and topical concerns. Songs were becoming more personal, as opposed to the still popular bubblegum love song pop. Italy saw a new wave of this type of singer songwriter in the mid to late 1960s.
- John Bensalhia
During the 1960s and 1970s, Italian popular music changed by incorporating Latin American and Anglo musical traditions, especially Brazilian bossa nova, American and British rock and roll and even jazz.
Starting in 1951 the Festival della canzone Italiana (known as the Festival di San Remo throughout the rest of the world) influenced the nation's popular music with song contests that have introduced new talent.
