CONTENT WARNING: 48:00 - 50:17

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In this episode of Society of Sound, Marianna follows Lucio Dalla’s emergence as an artist in 1960s Italy, a country caught between optimism and fracture. As the economic miracle transforms everyday life through television, migration, consumerism, and the expanding culture industry, Lucio begins to carve out a voice that refuses to stay inside the lines.

From jazz clubs and touring bands to RCA, Cantagiro, Sanremo, and his first album 1999, this episode traces how Dalla’s early music captured the tensions of a rapidly modernizing Italy: mass media and mass markets, American influence and local reinvention, private desire and public anxiety, futurism and disillusionment.

Through songs like “Pafff… bum!,” “Quando ero soldato,” and “1999,” this episode asks what it meant to become an artist in a moment when Italy was building itself into a modern consumer nation, and when music was both an art form and a commodity.

Songs featured:

1. “Sapore di sale” - Gino Paoli

2. “Lei - Non è per me” - Lucio Dalla

3. “Careless Love” - jazz standard, recorded by Ray Charles

4. “Ma questa sera” - Lucio Dalla (only on Youtube)

5. “Hey Little Girl” - Major Lance

6. “L’ora di piangere” - Lucio Dalla 

7. “Pafff…bum!” - Lucio Dalla

8. “1999” - Lucio Dalla

9. “I Got You” - James Brown

10. “Mondo di uomini”- Lucio Dalla

11. “It’s a Man’s World” - James Brown 

12. “Quando ero soldato” - Lucio Dalla

13. “La paura” - Lucio Dalla

14. “Io non ci sarò” - Lucio Dalla

15. “Le cose che vuoi” - Lucio Dalla

16. “L.S.D.” - Lucio Dalla

17. “Tutto il male del mondo” - Lucio Dalla 

18. “Bisogna saper perdere” - Lucio Dalla

    
    

Playlist links:

Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSDUOPfhrIjvDdmGPl6TNnsGsTlfEugB&si=uhNm6nLfuoP0_mqL
Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5lGJvwBYJdAP4WZ5l9vFHh?si=5fe1d7ea561f4dff

Sources for this season can be found at: ⁠https://www.societyofsoundpodcast.com/season-2-sources⁠  

After a five-year hiatus, The Society of Sound Podcast returns with a new season—and a new place.

In this first episode, your host Marianna takes you with her to Bologna, the Italian city she unexpectedly fell in love with, and the place that sparked her obsession with one question: can sound belong to a place?

We begin with her arrival in Bologna in 2021—walking under its centuries-old portici, learning how to navigate by the Due Torri, and first hearing the name Lucio Dalla, a singer-songwriter whose presence still echoes through the city. But to understand why Dalla matters, we have to go back. Back to 1943. 

Tracing Dalla’s early life, from his birth during World War II through the 1950s, this episode explores how sound is shaped not just by geography, but by history—by fascism, resistance, reconstruction, American influence, and the rise of jazz in Italy.

Along the way, we begin to ask bigger questions:What does a place sound like?What happens when sound travels beyond it?And can a musician ever truly represent a city?

Listen with the companion playlist (linked below) to step inside the sonic world of Bologna from 1943 to 1958.

Songs featured:

1. “Bella ciao” 

2. “Tiger Rag” - Original Dixieland Jazz Band

3. “Basin Street Blues” - Louis Armstrong 

4. “Petite Fleur” - Sidney Bechet, Preservation Hall Jazz Band

5. “Si tu vois ma mère” - Sidney Bechet, Claude Luter et son orchestre

6. “My Funny Valentine” - Chet Baker

7. “I Fall In Love Too Easily” - Chet Baker

8. “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” - Charles Mingus

9. “Moanin’” - Charles Mingus

10. “Un Poco Loco” - Bud Powell 

11. “Stolen Moments” - Eric Dolphy, Oliver Nelson

12. “La dolce vita” - Nino Rota

13. “Lola (Yes Sir, That’s My Baby)” - Nino Rota

14. “Grazie dei fiori” - Nilla Pizzi

15. “Vola colomba” - Nilla Pizzi

16. “Buongiorno tristezza” - Claudio Villa

17. “Nel blu dipinto di blu” - Domenico Modugno

18. “Love in Portofino” - Fred Buscaglione

    
    

Playlist links: 

Youtube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLSDUOPfhrIhrwRkTSFMSt3ljFgA_a3GK&si=aEs3TNAd7sKuZQ1w

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3JEB7ut64utlepG5xfTi57?si=a8af49f73d844345

Sources for this season can be found at: https://www.societyofsoundpodcast.com/season-2-sources  

The season finale of Season 1! Some concluding remarks about what we can learn from this study of popular music and gender politics.

In Episode 13 you will hear of the complexities behind Chilla’s public identity of a a female “feminist” rapper in France.

All sources can be found at societyofsoundpodcast.com/sources

In Episode 12, you will learn the message and the motive behind the visual aspects of the #BalanceTonPorc music video, as well as why it is important to analyze music videos of music that engages with social and political movements. 

If you are in need of help, resources can be found at societyofsoundpodcast.com/resources

All source material can be found on societyofsoundpodcast.com/sources

#BalanceTonPorc music video: 

https://www.facebook.com/ChillaOfficiel/videos/balancetonporc-chilla-official-music-video/335207444173356/

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYAYnGu_iaw

FIT une femme un toit: http://www.associationfit.org/

This week you will learn about how the public perceived Angèle’s message about Balance Ton Porc.

Notable Sources for Today:

Windey, Flo. “REVIEW: A Walk Through Brussels with Angèle's Debut Album Brol.” Enfnts Terrible, October 5, 2018. https://enfntsterribles.com/brussels-angele-brol-album-review-flo-windey/

Nova Radio. “Angèle : « J’ai été face à des gens pour qui la pop était le diable incarné » |Bam Bam,” YouTube Video, 8:40. December 3, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZw6JHnaxO8

NRJ. “Angèle : ‘J’ai encore pas mal de chansons sur les combats féministes.” YouTube Video,1:38. March 26, 2019. https://www.nrj.fr/artistes/angele/actus/angele-jai-encore-pas-mal-de-chansons-sur-les-combats-feministes-71317185

All sources for this season can be found in the “sources” section of our website.

Transition music by Marianna Krumrine.

This week you will hear an analysis of the Balance Ton Quoi music video and all of the intricacies behind the making of it. 

People mentioned:

Charlotte Abramow (director of music video) (instagram: @charlotteabramow)

Marion Brillouet (costume designer) (instagram: @mmmarionb)

Antoine Gouy (actor/comedian) 

Pierre Niney (actor/comedian) (instagram: @pierreniney)

Articles Mentioned:

Windey, Flo. “REVIEW: A Walk Through Brussels with Angèle's Debut Album Brol.” Enfnts Terrible, October 5, 2018. https://enfntsterribles.com/brussels-angele-brol-album-review-flo-windey/

Transition music by Marianna Krumrine

In Episode 3, you will learn about the #BalanceTonPorc movement in France.

A full list of sources for this episode can be found at societyofsoundpodcast.com/sources

Exceptionally notable resources for this episode:

-The letter in Le Monde: 

   (French) https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2018/01/09/nous-defendons-une-liberte-d-importuner-indispensable-a-la-liberte-sexuelle_5239134_3232.html

   (English in the NYT) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/movies/catherine-deneuve-and-others-denounce-the-metoo-movement.html

-Sarah Jaffe’s “The Collective Power of #MeToo” - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/collective-power-of-me-too-organizing-justice-patriarchy-class

-Murat, Laure. Une révolution sexuelle?: réflexions sur l'après-Weinstein. Stock, 2018.

-Réjane Sénac’s “Ne nous libérez pas, l’égalité va s’en charger.” Le Nouveau Magazine Littéraire, January 10, 2018. https://www.nouveau-magazine-litteraire.com/idees/ne-nous-lib%C3%A9rez-pas-l%C3%A9galit%C3%A9-va-sen-charger

Transition music by Marianna Krumrine.

In Episode 2, you will learn about the background of the #MeToo movement in the United States.

Sources for this episode can be found at societyofsoundpodcast.com/sources

A notable resources for this episode is Ashwini Tambe’s article “Reckoning with the Silences of #MeToo,” which is published in Feminist Studies Vol. 44, No. 1 (2018) pp. 197-203. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15767/feministstudies.44.1.0197

Transition music by Marianna Krumrine.

Meows by Dawn the cat ;)

In this first episode, you will learn about how the host Marianna came to learn about the music of #MeToo movement in France.

Transition music by Marianna Krumrine. 

Sources for this episode can be found in the "sources" page of societyofsoundpodcast.com