What was heard in Italy in the dramatic years of the Second World War? What kind of music production was used for cinema, for radio, for variety shows? Or again, what soundtrack could we imagine today when we see the grandiose and terrible photographs on display in the current exhibition "WAR IS OVER. The Italy of Liberation in the images of the US Signal Corps and the Istituto Luce, 1943-1946”, where winners and losers appear, fear and hope, beauties and rubble?
A project that comes from a survey on the production of Italian pop music between 1940 and 1945 which has reserved many surprises.
Beyond the more well-known phenomena – such as for example the Trio Lescano or the engravings of the masters Cinico Angelini and Pippo Barzizza – the public is accompanied to discover precious pages and extremely interesting engravings. If on the one hand, at first listening, an imitative process of pop music from overseas is recognizable – full of great personalities both among songwriter both among the leaders of the great jazz orchestras -, one can also witness an all-Italian (and European) peculiarity and taste, especially in the composition and in the breath of the melodies.
“WAR PICTURES IN JAZZ” is therefore not an invitation to a philological reconstruction of the songs of those years: rather it offers a audio commentary to the images, in which echoes of those songs that were the background to so many tragic events resurface.
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