Fedeli a Berlino. Influenze della Neue Deutsche Welle nel post-punk emiliano dei CCCP

The essay focuses on the influence of Berlin’s cultural scene in CCCP's music, tracing cover versions, quotations, and direct references to German punk and post-punk in the Italian group's early repertoire (1982-1985). CCCP’s songs are in fact rooted in Massimo Zamboni and Giovanni Ferretti's experiences in Berlin and conditioned by the cultural, social, and artistic processes acting around the band in its starting years. Neue Deutsche Welle’s ‘subversive’ communicative strategies, cleverly adapted to the Italian context, sometimes clashed with the ideology of the country’s own punk movement. However, for the same reason, CCCP soon attracted the attention of the press and media, allowing the band to reach a much wider audience that sometimes misunderstood them, and other times appreciated their inherently ambivalent musical and performative endeavors.