Modern Pop Music of Italy
Among the best-known Italian pop artists of the last few years are Patty Pravo, Mia Martini, Adriano Celentano, Domenico Modugno, Mina and...
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Among
the best-known Italian pop artists of the last few years are Patty Pravo, Mia
Martini, Adriano Celentano, Domenico Modugno, Mina and more presently Zucchero,
Rossi Vasco, Gianna Nannini and Irene Grandi and international superstar Andrea
Bocelli.
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Artists
who compose and sing their own songs are known as cantautori
(singer-songwriters). Their compositions typically focus on topics of social
relevance and are often protest songs; this wave started in the 1960s with
artists such as Paolo Conte, Fabrizio De Andre, Giorgio Gaber, Gino Paoli,
Luigi Tenco and Umberto Bindi. Social, political, psychological and
intellectual themes, mostly in the wake of Bager abd De Andre’s work became
even more predominant in 1970s through authors like Lucio Dalla, Franceso De
Gregori, Ivano Fossati, Pino Daniele, Rino Gaetano, Roberto Vecchioni and
Edoardo Bennato. Lucio Battisti from the late 1960s until mid-1990s appeared
the Italian music with the British rock and pop and lately in his career, with
genres like the synthpop, techno, eurodance and rap, while Angelo Branduardi
and Franco Battiato pursued careers more oriented to the culture of Italian pop
music. There are some genre cross-over between the cantautori and those who are
viewed as singers of protest music.
Film
scores, although they are secondary to the film, are often critically commended
and very famous in their own right. Among the early music for Italian films from
the 1930s was the work of Ricardo Zandonai with scores for the films La
Principessa Tarakanova in the year 1937 and Caravaggio in the year 1941.
Post-war for instances include the Goffredo Petrassi with Non c’e pace tra gli
ulivi in the year 1950 and Roman Vlad with Giulietta e Romeo in the year 1954.
Another popular film composer was Nino Rota whose post-war career included the
scores for films by Federico Fellini and later, the Godfather series, other
prominent film score composers include Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani and Piero
Umiliani.
