How ‘Bella Ciao' became the viral anthem for the fight against authoritarians
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Loading... - Adrien Gauthier
- 07 Oct 2022
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The Italian protest song has a long and storied history—reinvigorated by TikTok and Twitter.
And it’s been hard—if you’ve been following the feminist revolution in Iran over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini—to escape the strains of the Italian revolutionary anthem “Bella Ciao” (“Goodbye Beautiful”) accompanying the protest movement.
Amini was arrested for not wearing the traditional Muslim hijab face covering by Iran’s morality police and died in custody, sparking nearly a month of protests.
The song has since gone viral on social media as artists record their own versions of the tune, an act of unity against a repressive regime. In the ultimate act of defiance, two Iranian women sang a version in Farsi against a black background. Read More...
