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Abstract
At the peak of the economic miracle (1961-62) a sub-genre of consumer song centered around beach holidays comes to light: pumped by the ubiquitous jukeboxes in the bathing establishments, these Summer hits inaugurate the vogue
of the "tormentoni" and are a typically Italian phenomenon, which has no equivalent anywhere else. Behind its rise there are social reasons (more money for leisure activities), cultural (the holiday boom) and market reasons, related to the new ways of enjoying music (the advent of 45 rpms, turntables and portable record players). This article aims to reconstruct the reasons, fortunes and protagonists of the beach song within the context of the society and culture of the time in order to reevaluate its role as a identity marker and the sociological impact on a rapidly growing nation.
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2023
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Research Projects
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Holidays, Records, Sixties, Song, Youth
Citation
Prato, Paolo. “Tempo d’estate. La canzone balneare nell’Italia degli anni Sessanta.” Diacronie 53 (1): 1–20. 2023.