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The Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana (FIMI) or the Federation of the Italian Music Industry [1] is an umbrella organization that keeps track of virtually all aspects of the music recording industry in Italy. It was established in 1992, when major corporate labels left the previously existing Associazione dei Fonografici Italiani (AFI).
Italian popular music is musical output which is not usually considered academic or classical music but rather has its roots in the popular traditions, and it may be defined in two ways: it can either be defined in terms of the current geographical location of the Italian Republic with the exceptions of the Germanic South Tyrol and the eastern portion of Friuli-Venezia Giulia; alternatively ...
The Italian folk revival was accelerating by 1966, when the Istituto Ernesto de Martino was founded by Gianni Bosio in Milan to document Italian oral culture and traditional music. With the emergence of the Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare in 1970, the notion of a musical group organized to promote the music of a particular region (in this ...
From folk music to classical, music is an intrinsic part of Italian culture. Instruments associated with classical music, including the piano and violin, were invented in Italy, [ 82 ] [ 83 ] and many of the prevailing classical music forms, such as the symphony , concerto, and sonata , can trace their roots back to innovations of 16th- and ...
Radio Italia Solo Musica Italiana is an Italian music radio station based in Cologno Monzese, Italy, entirely devoted to Easy listening Italian music. It was the first to use this format in Italy. It was founded in 1982 by the Italian musician and composer Mario Volanti. In 1990 it was the most listened to commercial radio station in Italy.
Italy, the homeland of melodic music, turned out to be one of the major international centers for post-rock. Gianna Nannini in the 1970s, 1980s and into the 1990s was the first Italian rocker who achieve real popular success outside of Italy, especially in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux and later in Mexico.
The album with the most weeks at number one on the FIMI albums chart of 1995 was 883's La donna, il sogno & il grande incubo, which spent ten weeks atop the chart. Made in Heaven by Queen and Non calpestare i fiori nel deserto by Pino Daniele spent six weeks at number one, while Zucchero 's Spirito DiVino and Claudio Baglioni 's Io sono qui ...
Ars et labor: Musica e musicisti (Milan, 1906–1912), FT Vita musicale (Milan, 1911–1915), FT Harmonia. Rivista italiana di musica (Rome, 1913–1914), FT La Riforma musicale (Alessandria, Turin, 1913–1919), FT L'arte pianistica (Naples, 1914–1925), FT Ars Nova. Pubblicazione della Società Italiana di Musica Moderna (Rome, 1917–1919), FT