Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.31726/via.31.4
With sopila under the arm and the rosemary over the ear: Nello Milotti on the »Melodies of Istria and Kvarner« in the second half of the 1960s
Lada Duraković
Laura Marin
Abstract
The article talks about Nello Milotti's activity in the field of popular music. The features of his compositions performed and awarded at the Festival »Melodies of Kvarner« (»Melodies of Istria and Kvarner«, MIK) are discussed in the context of cultural policy of the 1960s. This time was marked by the establishment of popular music, the foundation of festivals of entertaining melodies and attempts to create local popular music that will have an educational sign and promote positive social, i.e. work and moral values. Professional music associations and other structures close to official cultural policy were looking for ways of creating »specifically Yugoslav« music that would be of high quality and contemporary and at the same time aligned with ideological criteria. Cultural policy has placed special hopes on academic musicians such as Milotti, who had just graduated from the Academy of Music in Ljubljana at the time of MIK's founding. The compositions of Nello Milotti Suvenir, Bokaleta, Urinjska baklja, Barbe, Kartolina s Kraljevice, Samanj, Pod Lindarom and Labinski kovari with which he presented at MIK in the second half of the sixties were compositionally and stylistically attractive, which was recognized by the audience as well as the expert committees of the festival. Written in the style of schlagers, Italian canzone, imbued with Istrian traditional elements or littoral melodies, they relied on the strongpoints of the discourse of »desirable tendencies« in entertainment music. They were cheerful and optimistic, conveyed positive values to young people about the importance of working and preserving heritage, and mirrored ideologically desirable postulates about idyllic life in the westernmost part of the country.
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Publication date:
21.11.2024.
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