Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano's Bella Ciao

Contents

• List of abbreviations of the archive funds
• Acknowledgements P rologue (in the form of a picture)
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. A song, a show, a record
• 2. Popular music and politics in the "boom" years
• 3. Communism, ethnomusicology and folk revival
• PART 1 . The myth of Bella Ciao
• 4. Meet the Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano
• 5. One week in Spoleto
• 6. Constructing the myth: the countess, the colonel, the rice picker
• 7. Bella Ciao in the theater: protest and distinction
• 8. After Spoleto
• 9. Bella Ciao on disc: antagonism and the market
• PART 2 . The performance of "real" folk
• 10. Organizing folk: the structure
• 11. Curating folk: the repertoire
• 12. "Bella Ciao" of the partisans
• 13. "Bella Ciao" of the rice pickers
• 14. Performing philology: Giovanna Marini's "fakes"
• 15. Staging folk: direction, sets and costumes
• 16. Strumming folk: the arrangements
• 17. Singing and learning to sing folk: the voices
• 18. Sounding folk: the studio recording CODA: Us and them Notes
• Index