Giovanna Marini, a famous Italian singer and composer, has died

The passion of the popular movement of the 1960s in her native Italy was embodied by singer and composer Giovanna Marini, whose playfulness she loved as much as she hated the destructive capitalism of Silvio Berlusconi (1936-2023), and said it was brilliant. contradictory : “Stars can be Guevarians, and communist shepherds can sing the Passion of Christ.” The feminist, volcanic, funny classical guitarist Giovanna Marini died in Rome on Wednesday, May 8. She was 87 years old.

All her life, she explored Canto RadicatoOr “rooted singing”, complex polyphony or party songs derived from Puglia to Lombardy. From this collection of fluttering red flags and anarchic resistance, as well as lullabies and funereal vigils, Giovanna Marini has built a prolific body of work. Activist “red”, a woman in the field, founder of the Scuola popolare di musica di Testaccio, in Rome, was famous and educated. His breakout with the playwright Pippo Delbono in the footsteps of E Zizi, a group of worker singers from the Al Fasud automobile factory in Naples, did not prevent him from teaching applied ethnology at Paris VIII (Saint-Denis).

Giovanna Salviucci was born in Rome on January 19, 1937 to a bourgeois family, which she became Marini after her marriage to a nuclear physicist, and she was the daughter of a classical musician. “Slightly cursed, by family condemnation of his out-of-tune music.”, I trusted that world In 1979. In this very sheltered childhood, I continued, “Calabria invented it, that [son] His maternal grandfather, a philosopher by profession, greatly despised work.”. She learned classical guitar with Andrés Segovia (1893-1987) and continued her training at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.

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In 1958, she met Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). “In Rome’s Smart Evening”Where she played Bach in the show. He says to him: “Songs are not found in books”Then, he sings a popular song from Friuli Bella Ciao. And so you discover a world MundenRice Field Workers, the first organized women’s group, led by the voice of Giovanna Davini (1914-1969). Passionate and now a close friend of the director, she joined Il Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, founded in Bologna by the ethnomusicologist Roberto Ledi (1928-2003). Together they created the label I Dischi del Sole, which became Bella ciao! After the success of the show of the same name – which was held in 1964 at the Festival of the Two Worlds in Spoleto – the troupe, which would then work with the writer and playwright Dario Fo (1926-2016), would be the subject of a complaint for insulting the honor of the armed forces.

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