Documentary Film On The Italian Northern Soul Scene!

Hi everybody Soul Folks

here is a link of crowdfunding for a docu film on the italian northern soul scene the page was maded not from me but from a my very close friend...the project is very serious and we have also a couple of university behind...

off course any idea or supporting could be very appreciated...and we can show our work in progress step by step...in total clear...especially for the economic things...let me know your opinion!!!

we keep the faith!
Alfredo

Hi everyone.

This is Rocco Romano from Italy.

Me and my fellow black music lovers are trying to gather some funds for an ambitious project: the realization of a documentary about when, how and why Northern Soul has penetrated into the italian club scene, and what its legacy in the italian record collectors' and "clubbers'" milieu is.

With our feet firmly rooted in sociology, cultural studies and audience theories we will try to research the socio-economical, geographical and cultural peculiarities of such musical phenomenon, in terms of demographics, styles of consumption, tastes and subcultural identification.

As David Forgacs noted in his research endeavor on the industrialization of italian culture, Italian audiences have always preferred entertainment products from abroad, but (in our opinion) they never failed to adapt and re-invent the foreign creations, giving birth to interesting brand new cultural objects.

How they paraphrased Soul music and associated phenomena (such as Mod subculture)?

Blending in the most effective methodologies of social research on cultural matters with cutting-edge video-making techniques, we aim at shaping an interesting upshot, and we want it to be a visually pleasing experience and an informative piece of cultural enquiry at the same time.

Give us an helping hand please!

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This page was created by Rocco Romano.

I'm a graduate student ad LUISS G. Carli University of Rome. I'm in the fields of Media Studies and Cultural Sociology.

ady croasdell Jan 09 2014 10:03 AM

Whadya need from us? I can relate stories from two very different dances I DJed at over there quite early on. Ady

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Alfie79 Jan 09 2014 11:38 AM

Sure Ady i'll contact you soon as possible is only a start up system actually to find some funds

me and Rocco are two students (i'm more into soul scene from 15 years actually ) and Rocco have contacted me...so we have coordinate it...actually we don't have any other funds from our university system or public....but we hope to make some rumors on it...to make it possible...i've asked at mike to make a post for it...i've start to contact people and make some plan for interview and create a cultural line and focus for the docu...i'll explain step by step our work....and sure you're one in the list Ady thanks so much for the interest!!!

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tlscapital Jan 10 2014 12:33 AM

Good luck with it !

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john parker Jan 10 2014 06:00 PM

Something to talk about when Im over in Salerno with Alfie in April..should be really interesting

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Alfie79 Jan 11 2014 05:36 PM

for all english guy of the primary scene...could be very nice from all of them to have story about the relation with italian guy during the primar scene...like punters, dancers or selling stuff...everything about sharing knowledge on that wonderfull scene!!!

for example we're start to be in contact with some people here in italy that have start the scene during the late eighties....there is a guy from england Thomas Gareth that have a relation with the guys that have created the black trefoil soul club in genova...anyone of you have contact with him???

plus of course any footage video or material from that period in italy...

and of course we've a start a crowdfundings system to raise some funds to pay material and travel and everything else to become true that dream!

Mal C an 13 2014 11:39 AM

Remember some of the Mods that used to live in Brighton in the 9ts were Italian, there was one girl called Mary, used to live over the road from me in the Lanes, she was married to a Scottish Guy called Divv (David), we both had children at the same time so it was easy to nip over.... Lovely Girl, ... She's back in Italy now, think she went back 99 or 2000, and I do periodically see pics of her at do's... you should look to interview people like her as they bridge both scenes as it were..

She was especially good at buying records from Male dealers, being a quite stunning looking girl, she generally got what she wanted lol.. Sure some folks on here would know who I'm referring to..I'd Love to get back in contact with her.

Mal.c

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corbett80 Jan 13 2014 06:25 PM

You mean Mary Perrazoni (Mary Boogaloo) - a very smart and lovely girl and would be a font of knowledge I reckon. She's currently running a night called Now You Has Jazz. She was out in London on NYE - you can find her on FB as Mary Boogaloo.

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Alfie79Jan 14 2014 10:04 AM

yep i know her very well.... thanks so much!!!

none have news of those guy Thomas Gareth!!!???

Alfie79Jan 14 2014 10:06 AM

any relation with some italians punters (emigrated sons) or something like that in the early scene???

Rocco RomanoJan 14 2014 07:40 PM

we would like to thank you all for the little storytelling goin' on on this thread.... some narrative stuff is beginning to take its shape even from this bits'n'pieces!

here's a link at the facebook fanpage:

and let me remember you our crowd-funding address as well:

even little donations will be very appreciated, we're going to need at least a whole bunch of train tickets in the pre-production phase, you know ^_^

thank you very much for your attention and support!

Tony dam Jan 18 2014 12:15 PM

keepa Da Faith good luck its probably better weather over there for the scooter soulies .