Credited on the record as Il «Canzoniere delle Lame» di Bologna.
Inno dei Viet-Cong
1973 · Edizioni FGCI CDL 05 · Italy
- Artist
- Canzoniere delle Lame
- Credited on the record as
- Il «Canzoniere delle Lame» di Bologna
- Title
- Inno dei Viet-Cong
- Release
- X Festival Mondiale Della Gioventù - Berlino 1973
- Year
- 1973
- Label
- Edizioni FGCI # CDL 05
- Format
- 7" · EP
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy
- Songwriter
- Huỳnh Minh Siêng; Italian adaptation Janna Carioli, Gianfranco Ginestri
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Italian Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Notes
Edizioni FGCI CDL 05 (Rome, 1973; "quinto disco – GRS"), stereo 7-inch EP of four anti-imperialist solidarity songs for the X World Festival of Youth, Berlin 1973: "Tu compagno" (Italy; Sergio Liberovici, from Brecht's Lehrstück "Die Maßnahme"), "Compagni avanti andiam" (Germany; the 1919 "Auf, auf zum Kampf"), "Inno dei Viet-Cong" (Vietnam) and "Inno della Tricontinentale" (Cuba); all lyrics on the back with a note on each. The sleeve note on the Viet-Cong hymn: the official anthem of the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front, from 1969 also the national anthem of the Provisional Revolutionary Government; music and words by Huỳnh Minh Siêng, Italian adaptation by Janna Carioli and Gianfranco Ginestri (July 1972). Back text from l'Unità on the group's 400th show at the Festival dell'Unità, Rome, 1 October 1972. Cover of Giải phóng miền Nam. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
Canzoniere delle Lame - political folk group of the Casa del Popolo in the Lame quarter of Bologna, young workers and students active in the PCI and FGCI: Janna Carioli, Frida Forlani, Gianfranco Ginestri, Sebastiano Giuffrida, Pasquale Greco, Ivano Mengoli and Patrizio Nocciolini on this record.
Themes
VC · Vietnamese Patriotic · South Vietnam Patriotic · Anti-Imperialism · NLF · Solidarity