16.02.2015 Views

Download PDF - Blue Liguria - Sagep

Download PDF - Blue Liguria - Sagep

Download PDF - Blue Liguria - Sagep

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

Create successful ePaper yourself

Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.

lue<br />

soul<br />

tutt’ora. Gli americani sono stati capaci di<br />

eleggere un Presidente nero, in Italia è<br />

praticamente impossibile che i più poveri<br />

accedano davvero al potere.<br />

Brecht diceva: dal momento che tutti gli<br />

altri posti erano occupati, ci sedemmo dalla<br />

parte del torto.<br />

Ecco, noi ragazzi di borgata che scrivevamo<br />

canzoni come oggi le scrivono i ragazzi della<br />

piazza hip hop, non potevamo che sederci<br />

dalla parte del torto e prendercela<br />

acriticamente con un grandissimo Paese<br />

talmente libero da produrre da sé gli<br />

anticorpi al proprio Male.<br />

Noi non siamo liberi come gli<br />

americani, ci fa male provare a<br />

essere liberi come loro, la libertà<br />

degli States non ci porta a cambiare<br />

ma a rappresentare il cambiamento.<br />

Solo un popolo giovane come quello<br />

americano può permettersi di<br />

essere ingenuo e superficiale, noi<br />

che abbiamo più storia abbiamo il<br />

dovere della profondità.<br />

Sennò mentre loro inventano la<br />

rete, noi inventeremo (ben che<br />

vada) la religione della rete.<br />

Naturalmente il mio ragionamento<br />

riguarda tutti tranne i genovesi: noi<br />

abbiamo inventato i blue<br />

jeans mentre loro hanno inventato<br />

solo la religione dei blue jeans.<br />

* Nato a Ovada (AL) nel ’56, genovese<br />

d’adozione, Gian Piero Alloisio è stato<br />

per 16 anni autore con Giorgio Gaber.<br />

Il mese scorso ha lanciato "Genova per<br />

voi", primo talent per cantautori che<br />

mette in palio un contratto editoriale<br />

in esclusiva con Universal/Ricordi,<br />

e il 2 maggio al Teatro della Tosse<br />

organizzerà l'ottavo Festival Pop della<br />

Resistenza.<br />

Gian Piero Alloisio was born in Ovada<br />

(AL) in 1956, but Genoese by adoption,<br />

for 16 years the author of theatresong<br />

with Giorgio Gaber.<br />

Last month he launched "Genova per<br />

voi", the first talent show for singersongwriters,<br />

whose prize is a contract<br />

in exclusive with Universal/Ricordi, and<br />

on May 2 he will host, at the Teatro<br />

della Tosse, the eighth Pop Festival of<br />

the Resistance.<br />

groups: those pro and those con. The cons, like<br />

me, couldn’t bear that society of spectacle, nor<br />

the spectacle in that society in which, as Guy<br />

Debord said, true is just a moment of false. And<br />

then we lost, and even the beautiful Olga, a<br />

comrade from East Germany who was extremely<br />

ideological, was converted to the values of the<br />

West and began a career as a porno star.<br />

Naturally even we young “cons” were a bit envious<br />

of our age group that lived in the Country of<br />

Opportunity, except that living that free culture<br />

in our Country of Who Knows Whom and Non-<br />

Opportunities was simply ridiculous. And it still<br />

is. Americans are able to elect a black president,<br />

but in Italy it is practically impossible for the<br />

poor to reach the heights of power.<br />

Brecht would say that since all the other places<br />

were taken, we Italians sat down on the side of<br />

the wrong.<br />

And here we were, the boys of the outskirts writing<br />

songs like those written today by boys of the<br />

Hip Hop – we couldn’t help but sit down on the<br />

side of the wrong and take it out uncritically on<br />

the Greatest Country on Earth, that was so free<br />

that it produced on its own antibodies against its<br />

own pain.<br />

We are not free like Americans. It<br />

hurts us to be free like them. The<br />

freedom of the States does not<br />

make us really change, but to depict<br />

change. Only a young people like the Americans<br />

can allow themselves to be naïve and superficial.<br />

We, with our long history, have the duty of<br />

depth. Otherwise while they are inventing the<br />

social media, we will invent (at best) the religion<br />

of the social media.<br />

Naturally my reasoning reflects on all except the<br />

Genoese – we invented blue jeans, while they<br />

only invented the religion of blue jeans.<br />

Nelle immagini, Mickey Mouse, camalli in<br />

jeans nel porto di Genova, le manifestazioni<br />

studentesche degli anni Settanta, alcune<br />

grafiche pubblicitarie americane<br />

In the photos, Mickey Mouse, longshoremen<br />

in jeans in Genoa’s port, student protests<br />

during the seventies<br />

14

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!