A lot of bands just skipped over Italy or only played a couple dates in Rome or Milan once in the 60s or 70s and didn’t come back for decades. One theory I have for why that might be is that while bands in the 60s and 70s did tour mainland Europe, Italy didn’t get a lot of tour dates, most of the tour dates were concentrated in Northwest Europe and Scandinavia. However, Italy for the most part didn’t have much interest in rock music until the 70s with the Italian Progressive Rock scene, that was the big explosion of rock music. Like a lot of countries in Europe, rock music came to Italy from the United States and the UK and the first rock stars recorded cover versions of popular songs. There are heaps of languages, but here’s just a few: Franco-provençal, Alemmanic, Venetian, Lombard, Piedmontese, Neapolitan, Corsican, Sardinian, and Sicilian for starters. Absolutely not true! Borders are manmade and people groups can be found on both sides of a border. This is a common misconception that Americans have about European countries, that each country only has one language. Another important thing to remember is that Italian isn’t the only language from the Italian peninsula and not all the languages are Romance languages. The Italian peninsula was originally made up of a lot of states: city-states, kingdoms, republics. It’s also important to keep in mind that Italy wasn’t always all one country and unification was actually quite recent in history, happening between 18 – to put it in perspective for the Americans and Brits reading this blog, that’s around the time of the Gold Rush, Civil War, and Reconstruction and the Victorian Era. Italy is a big and long country and there are differences between the north and the south whether it’s cuisine, weather. People in other countries outside the Anglosphere listen to music in English even though they may or may not understand the lyrics so why can’t we do the same with music in other languages? It can be intimidating trying to find music from other countries, so what I aim to do is to share the best of the best rock music from all over the world and bring it to you and give you my recommendations and see what I can learn about rock music in these countries. I don’t think people should limit themselves to listening to music in their language. Why talk about mainland Europe? Simply put, if the music isn’t in English, it isn’t going to get radio airplay in America and probably not in the UK. One of my goals was to write all about rock music from all over Europe and I want to start that again this year. First, I want to start off this post with a big shout out to my friend and classmate Alessandro! He’s a big rock music fan from Italy and I have a lot of memories talking about rock music and we even got to see Afterhours together in Dublin.Įarlier in my blog’s history, I used to write posts about different countries and the rock music of the 60s and 70s from there.
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