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Rock music and politics in Italy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

Umberto Fiori
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One afternoon in September 1982, at Tirrenia, in the province of Pisa, hundreds of Communist party-workers prepared for the opening concert of an Italian tour by the rock band Genesis. The work took place under the red flags of the National Festival of the Communist Party – L'Unità – and to the sound of traditional songs of political struggle coming from the loudspeakers placed all round the area. These were unpaid workers, highly organised, and they had come from all over Italy.

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Part 5. Performers and Audiences II: Rock Music and Politics
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Popular Music , Volume 4 , January 1984 , pp. 261 - 277
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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