...is known to the Italian public as cantautore, a writer and singer of songs (canzoni) musically arranged and performed by himself. His canzoni d'autore are first and foremost engagements with the complicated--and frequently dramatic--political, social, and cultural history of Italy since the 1970s; on the one hand close to genuine folksongs, the study of which was reinvigorated in this period by intellectuals and anthropologists, they are, on the other hand, related to the commercial canzoni showcased in particular by the Sanremo Festival. Both narrative types have seismically registered and accompanied the ongoing changes of the Italian way of life. Thus, Vecchioni is part of a small group of scholarly cantautori whose lyrics often interweave literary quotations, making the texts at their best (as with Fabrizio de Andre) genuine poetry, or literature, respectively.

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