Dear friends,
I would like to emphazize that, while at the beginning of the nineties
italian rap and posse were absolutely the 'cool thing', now the fortune of
italian rap is quickly declining. Most ex-rappers now turned to world-music
or more melodic song structure, although still making use of rapping spoken
word in the narrative 'strofe' and using a more melodic shorter line for
the 'ritornelli'. Jovanotti and 99 posse for example are no longer rappers!
The experience of rap has influenced songwriting a lot (CSI is perhaps the
finest exaple of this), but striclty speaking italian rap is a dead thing.
The poet Edoardo Sanguineti released with musician Andrea Liberovici a CD
whose title is 'RAP' in 1998 (see my review in Semicerchio, 19, p. 98).
That record is a lot more/different than a standard rap, and the fact that
it stands out as a learned post-modern reworking of rap and madrigal
patterns shows that the basic formula in itself is kind of worn out.
University students' protests can be seen as sympthoms of the wind of
change: in 1990 the Pantera movement was pretty into rap, while the 1997
movement (less important phenomenon) was more into techno and back to rock
(but rap had left its mark).
hope this helps
Massimiliano Chiamenti
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