Italian Styles of Music: Classical Music in Italy, Eurobeat, Italian Folk Music, Italian Hip Hop, Italian Popular Music, Italian Rock

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Classical music in Italy, Eurobeat, Italian folk music, Italian hip hop, Italian popular music, Italian rock, Tarantella, Italo disco, List of compositions by Fabio Vacchi, Italo dance, Ti lascio una canzone, Canzone Napoletana, Italian jazz, Siciliana, Barcarole, Cantu a tenore, Dynamis Ensemble, Fabio Lombardi, Lento Violento, Memory Records, Pastorale, Italian hardcore, SAIFAM, Italo house, Occitan folk music, Trallalero, Sud Sound System, Ghetonia, Self-managed social centers in Italy, Aramire. Excerpt: Eurobeat, as the name implies, is a music genre from Europe. It is a sub-genre of 80s italo disco (a.k.a. 80s eurodisco). In the USA, it was sometimes marketed as Hi-NRG and for a short while shared this term with the very early freestyle music hits. Eurobeat is also directly related to the Japanese Para Para dance culture, but in a completely different way, explained later in this article. The term eurobeat was first used in the UK when Ian levin'es Eastbound Expressway released their single You're A Beat in recognition to the slower tempo of Hi-NRG/italo disco music emerging from Europe. The majority of Hi-NRG releases tended to be from 124bpm - 138bpm where as the European tended to be 108 - 120 bpm. Many European acts managed to break through under this new recognition namely the likes of Modern Talking, Bad Boys Blue, Taffy and Spagna. It was used commercially to describe the Stock Aitken Waterman produced hits by Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Jason Donovan, Sonia, and Kylie Minogue which were heavily based on the British experience with italo-disco during holidays in Greece and elsewhere. Eurobeat was also applied to the first hits from Pet Shop Boys and other UK-based dance music and electropop groups of the time. Those eurobeat hits had a European beat, topped the UK charts, and, in the USA, receiv...