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Suoni dalla città (City Sounds)

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Suoni dalla Città (City Sounds) (1992, 60’) by Massimo Arvat and Enrico Cerasuolo. Documentary about the Italian independent music scene at the beginning of the 90ies. Broadcast on Videomusic. Home-video edited by Materiali Sonori. Shown in many Squattings during 1992 and 1993, it participated to the Sunny Side of the Doc in Marseille in 1994 and to the Arcipelago Festival in Rome in 2000.

Synopsis:
A unique document about a turning point in Italian youth culture at the beginning of the 90ies, through music and the places where it was played. The independent music scene, rap, hip-hop, ragamuffin and world music, sang in Italian and in regional dialects after many years. Places of meeting and fighting, squattings, suburbs, squares. Interviews with the main characters, concerts, improvised jam sessions, demonstrations and police attacks. Turin in 1992, FIAT-town as a laboratory of new conflicts. With Mau Mau, Africa Unite, Assalti Frontali, 99 Posse, Frankie Hi'n'r'g, Fratelli di Soledad. Devastatin' Posse, To.sse, Radio Rebelde, The Next Diffusion, African Outlaws, THC, Dissociata Posse.

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