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The song of poetry and revolution
Massimiliano Floriani
book "The Ortigia"
Municipal News Arco
No. 2 / 2009

The lamented Fernanda Pivano who died last Aug. 18 in his Genoa taught us what is the song of Italian singers. Supporting him with strength, vigor and passion. He was deeply in love with poetry that always told us the last of society: the disadvantaged, the poor, prostitutes, drug addicts, the abused, the oppressed. Hence the lighting. The poem has been replaced by the song. "The kids do not read the official poets. They read those poets who create their own songs: the songwriters and hear them, are a return to this possibility of identification through poetry, to find yourself living the problems of contemporary life. The songwriters tell stories of our time, the other language, which I abhor, the poets, but takes away the boys. " Yes may agree or disagree with this statement of Pivano, such as Francesco De Gregori think just the contrary, the poetry remains on paper and the song is something else. I consider myself more inclined to think of it as the intellectual Genoese who interviewed the great writers of the twentieth century and who translated Edgar Lee Masters. The Italian singer-songwriters from the sixties brought down some stereotypes, they shouted in the streets and in our homes as freedom, equality, compassion and love. How can you say that they did not poetry? They made poetry and revolution. And fortunately there have been, and there are even in the shadows. But this time many things have changed, the seventies are a long way. Anyone who approaches the music of songwriters he does so with a bit 'of nostalgia, or the total ignorance because they are too young to understand the method and purpose. Fernanda Pivano Perhaps there has never spoken of the musical wasteland of the millennium, to find a singer in our country that is not a veteran "Prince of Music" recognized as an undisputed master (eg Battiato, Fossati, De Gregori, Vecchioni) is almost a miracle. There are many new singers that have a lot to say and to sing, write poetry and still throw the principle of the revolution. But the shadows are perennial, like the revolutionaries they really were, with the sole except that they wield a guitar and not a rifle. The consideration that arises is the same: the market has deliberately cut off from the scene this type of music and, consequently, the reflection that gave the lyrics committed to the millions of young people excited, eager to absorb higher values \u200b\u200band true in front of a bonfire. This reversal of the market has generated and generates ignorance, but not intellectual but spiritual ignorance. Before he died the Pivano said: "With great sorrow for the dead and the tragedy I have to declare defeat and losing because I worked 70 years writing exclusively in honor of non-violence and love and I see the planet covered with blood." Let us not be surprised if the musical revolution has been stopped because maybe, in relation to these words, the music has lost the war for the vindication of the weak and equality.