Cantagiro was an Italian summer song contest held from 1962 to 1972 and 1990 to 1993. It featured three categories, A for famous artists, B for newcomers and C for groups. The creator of the competition was Ezio Radaelli . The name of the festival was a reference to the bicycle race Giro d'Italia , and, as the Giro, Cantagiro was organized as a stage race consisting of eleven or twelve daily stages, each set in a different city. A peculiar characteristic of the festival was that, while traveling between one stage and the other, singers were required to travel in an open car, to be at the disposal of the crowd of fans, otherwise risking fines or disqualification from the competition; accordingly the travel usually resolved into a huge crowd, with fans waiting their idols in every corner of the path.
11-551: The festival was the main subject of two musicarello films, Urlo contro melodia nel Cantagiro 1963 (1964) and La più bella coppia del mondo (1967). Il Cantagiro - Edizione De Carlo This article about culture in Italy is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This music festival-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Musicarello The musicarello ( pronounced [muzikaˈrɛllo] ; pl. : musicarelli )
22-526: A musicarello with Gianni Morandi which was panned by critics but which got a large commercial success. Fizzarotti then directed several films of the same genre, starring some of the most important Italian singers of the time. His career also include the spaghetti Western I'll Sell My Skin Dearly and Sgarro alla camorra , the first sceneggiata film, which marked the film debut of Mario Merola . This article about an Italian film director
33-689: A way generally undifferentiated for tastes and ages, musicarello is explicitly targeted to a youthful audience and usually has in its plot a vague polemic against conformism and bourgeois attitudes, even if it does not fail to reflect the desire and need for emancipation of young Italians, highlighting some generational frictions. The genre was referred to as a curious mix between fotoromanzi , traditional comedy, hit songs and tentative references to tensions between generations. The key figures in this genre were directors Piero Vivarelli and Ettore Maria Fizzarotti , and actor-singers Gianni Morandi , Little Tony , Rita Pavone and Caterina Caselli . With
44-454: A way of bringing teenagers to the cinema attracted by the plot as by the singers' performances. In fact, the films are born from agreements between record companies and film companies. In the films there are almost always tender and chaste love stories accompanied by the desire to have fun and dance without thoughts. Unlike most film musicals, this subgenre has an evident age-based focus while musical films until that time had been produced in
55-506: Is a film subgenre which emerged in Italy and which is characterised by the presence in main roles of young singers, already famous among their peers, and their new record album. In the films there are almost always tender and chaste love stories accompanied by the desire to have fun and dance without thoughts. Musicarelli reflect the desire and need for emancipation of young Italians , highlighting some generational frictions. The genre began in
66-407: Is characterised by the presence in main roles of young singers, already famous among their peers, and their new record album. At the heart of the musicarello is a hit song, or a song that the producers hoped would become a hit, that usually shares its title with the film itself and sometimes has lyrics depicting a part of the plot. Musicarello can be defined as the forerunner of the music video,
77-534: The musicarelli was the version for the Italian market of the American musical film Go, Johnny, Go! (1959) by Paul Landres starring Jimmy Clanton , Chuck Berry , Ritchie Valens and Eddie Cochran , released in Italy as Vai, Johnny vai! . Some sequences were inserted from scratch in the film with the Italian singer Adriano Celentano who introduces and concludes the story by playing some of his songs. Musicarello
88-411: The arrival of the 1968 student protests the genre started to decline, because the generational revolt became explicitly political and at the same time there was no longer a music equally directed to the whole youth audience. For some time the duo Al Bano and Romina Power continued to enjoy success in musicarello films, but their films (like their songs) were a return to the traditional melody, and to
99-442: The late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the 1960s. According to critics, the name musicarello is a reference to the successful TV series Carosello . In particular, the name musicarello combines the words musica ("music") and Carosello : in fact, the singers who were the protagonists of the musicarelli , thanks to their notoriety, often appeared in many episodes of TV series Carosello . The genre began in
110-412: The late 1950s, and had its peak of production in the 1960s. The film which started the genre is considered to be I ragazzi del Juke-Box (1959) by Lucio Fulci . The musicarelli were inspired by two American musicals, in particular Jailhouse Rock (1957) by Richard Thorpe and earlier Love Me Tender (1956) by Robert D. Webb , both starring Elvis Presley . One of the pioneering films of
121-521: The musical films of the previous decades. Ettore Maria Fizzarotti Ettore Maria Fizzarotti (3 January 1916 – 10 September 1985) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Naples , the son of the director Armando , he debuted as assistant director in the films of his father, and later collaborated with, among others, Vittorio Cottafavi and Raffaello Matarazzo . He made his directorial debut in 1964, with In ginocchio da te ,
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