Credited on the record as Il «Canzoniere delle Lame» di Bologna.
Inno della Tricontinentale
1975 · Zodiaco VPA 8243 · Bologna, Italy
- Artist
- Canzoniere delle Lame
- Credited on the record as
- Il «Canzoniere delle Lame» di Bologna
- Title
- Inno della Tricontinentale
- Release
- Tu compagno
- Year
- 1975
- Label
- Zodiaco # VPA 8243
- Format
- LP · Album
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Bologna, Italy
- Songwriter
- Corale degli Operai de Holguín; Italian adaptation Gianfranco Ginestri, Janna Carioli
- Genre
- Folk · Contemporary Italian Folk Music
- Primary theme
- Vietnamese Patriotic
Notes
Track B6 (side B "Canti antimperialisti") of the Zodiaco LP "Il Canzoniere delle Lame di Bologna. Dal recital Tu compagno" (VPA 8243, with lyric booklet, distributed by Sciascia), the same programme first issued by FGCI Bologna as "16 canzoni antifasciste e antimperialiste, dallo spettacolo Tu compagno" (CDL-011, 1974). Vietnam is one of the three continents' struggles named in the hymn.
About the artist
Canzoniere delle Lame was an Italian political-folk collective founded 1 May 1967 in the Lame neighborhood of Bologna (now part of Quartiere Navile) by Janna Carioli and Gianfranco Ginestri, drawing students, teachers and workers 'politically committed' to the Italian left, operating out of a neighborhood community center. Early members included organizer Alba Arnofoli and singer/guitarist Bruno Cuppi. The group was active 1967-1987 (peak activity 1970-1980), recorded roughly 33 albums, and performed over 1,000 concerts in Italy, across Europe, in Cuba and aboard Soviet cruise ships, sharing…
Themes
Anti-Imperialism · Solidarity · Cuba · Communism · Africa · Chile (Cold War)