April 30, 1945 When the Red Army captured the Reichstag, the German parliament building, the Fuhrer was already committed suicide in the bunker with the historic mistress Eva Braun. By the end of World War II, in a Europe reduced to a pile of rubble, the two antagonistic blocs, the Soviet Union and the United States, gradually more and more armed and fiercely opposed to an ideological and geopolitical conflict, they stood on the threshold of direct military confrontation: the Cold War. Europe must leave behind the nefarious military past and out of the post-war crisis, but how can make it alone? George Marshall, U.S. secretary of state, implementing a program (which bears his name) to facilitate the resumption of the old continent, in his view, was held up considerably worth the aggravation of the political, economic and social. With Europe ferried out of the downward spiral of totalitarianism a long season (defined golden age) of economic growth created the conditions of the "welfare society", citizens are ensured the almost total coverage of needs, from cradle to grave "as dreamed Beveridge. The euphoria resulting in the end of the second war is the desire to explode out of their houses to express all the energy long suppressed during the years of conflict. Pain, suffering tormented existence is contrasted with the desire to have fun. E 'Italy intellectual, imaginative, fictional neorealistic culture, one that is rediscovered prone to distractions incomprehensible at the time of Mussolini, "one of the most intrepid dancers" waltz. From World War onwards to dance there are many soldiers, housewives, workers, industrialists, in a collective frenzy that involves many different social classes. M. Innocent "Italy 1945" writes: It 's the long summer of 1945, a summer festive and vindictive. You can dance at home, in courtyards, squares, under the pergolas. They dance in the Valley [...] I crank phonographs spread the notes of the boogie-woogie ... dances that can come from America to pour verve, vitality and social life as you dream. In an article on the fifties' youth wings hot "Camilla caderno thus paints what may be called the Little America in Milan: males carry all canvas trousers and checkered shirts, tennis shoes, basketball shoes and jackets with the words back (...). I saw them all together in Milan this winter, when there was the first championship of rock and roll to the ice rink. Alessandro Portelli has written in this regard: "... the tensions which this dance in America when they dissolve on Italian soil." Italy is fertile ground for new experiments that blend with traditional choral music trends established homegrown. Paul Ginsborg inform us about the hundreds of dance halls that sprang up in those years became centers for meetings in where young people, "leaving constriction of rural life." In a survey on jobs between '50 and '60 Italian Giorgio Bocca in large cities indicates that one in four is devoted to the fun. A want to do two calculations is an army of dancers that is divided between private parties and public dancing. Meanwhile, the record industry exploded and the Juke box (in exponential growth in recent years) diffuse sound unheard before. We're just at the beginning of an upward parabola. Are the long nights of rhythmic twist (from twisting) of the shake, successes Beatles (Please Please Me and Twist and Shout), a Mina unleashed with its "Tan of the moon." Not to mention the arrival in Italy of so-called Latin American dances, musical surprise of those years. Curious also hula-hop fashion, to put a circle on the body while dancing, which the magazine "I smiled" I dedicate this cover: be patient for another week, December 1 we will have the appropriate records to dance the hula hop . The echo unconventional from the University of California, Berkeley (USA), where he began the youth protest student sparked a feeling that maverick in Italy gave birth to the generation of flower children, a trade union strikes and intense political struggles that influenced the thinking of years following. Divertentistico lowered the curtain of dancing at all costi.Le cursed a thousand nights, rhythm, triggered for a time was almost over. It will continue in the coming decades, through generations, other places and other new stories to tell, and surreal desires really want to dance.
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G. Crainz, history of the Italian miracle;
G. Montroni, scenes of the contemporary world from 1815 to present;
M. Emanuelli, 50-year history of television through the weekly press;
A. Tonelli, dancing and dancing: the story of Italy in dance steps :1815-1996.
