Long live the political Sanremo | The paper

In the controversies linked to Sanremo, there is a cultural element, so to speak, which is often guiltily overlooked by many observers. That element has to do with a theme that certainly concerns Sanremo, but which concerns Italy in general and which has to do with an issue that deserves a little reflection: the incredible pervasiveness of politics in Italy. A pervasiveness that, over the years, has contributed to transforming the Sanremo Festival into a useful stage not only for highlighting the best musical talents of our country, but also for highlighting the main fault lines present in the political debate . And the organizers of the Festival, in recent years, have understood this perfectly and have done their best to transform the Festival into a perfect occasion to offer Italians extra musical topics to discuss over dinner. They did so by giving ever greater space to monologues, they did so by endorsing the presence of divisive arguments in the monologues, they did so by transforming their hosts into a useful occasion to represent all the shares of society, they did so, as our friend says Andrea Minuz, mixing the old national-popular Italy with the modern, more fluid, more global and more multi-ethnic one.