“Neomelodica: the Italian pop loved by the mob and hated by the law”. Marcello Ravveduto, membro dell’ORC, intervistato da The Guardian
Neomelodica was born in the 1980s as a reaction to societal change and the crisis of the canzone napoletana, the traditional, hyper-sentimental Neapolitan song (sometimes accompanied by mandolin or guitar) that bloomed in the early 19th century. By the 70s canzone napoletana had fallen out of fashion, and around the same period its hotbed, Naples, underwent a transformation, with the creation of neighbourhoods completely segregated from the city’s polite society.
“In a way, neomelodica was to Naples what hip-hop was to America, it gave a voice to impoverished neighbourhoods,” says Marcello Ravveduto, a history professor at the University of Salerno. Whereas canzone napoletana was representing a picture-perfect, idealised Naples, neomelodici began depicting the harsh reality of its peripheries.https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/04/neomelodica-the-italian-pop-loved-by-the-mob-and-hated-by-the-law
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ORC (7 février 2022). “Neomelodica: the Italian pop loved by the mob and hated by the law”. Marcello Ravveduto, membro dell’ORC, intervistato da The Guardian. ORC | Observatoire du Récit Criminel - Osservatorio del Racconto Criminale. Consulté le 13 mai 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/sjvy