Ebook: Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano's Bella Ciao

Bella ciao is the album which kick-started Italian folk revival in the mid-1960s, by Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano, a group of researchers, musicians and radical intellectuals. Based on a contested music show that debuted in 1964, Bella ciao also featured a double version of the popular song with the same title, an anti-Fascist anthem from War World II, destined to become one of the most sung political song in the world and translated in more than 40 languages. The book reconstructs the history and the reception of the Bella ciao project in 1960s Italy and, more broadly, explores the origins and the distinctive development of the Italian folk revival movement through the lens of this pivotal album.