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- Title
I Watussi.
- Authors
Forgacs, David
- Abstract
The article reflects on the ‘absent connection’ between the fictional Watussi of the Italian hit song of 1963 and the real Tutsi, many of whom had fled Rwanda at that time to escape violence from the ascendant Hutu majority in the last years of Belgian rule. It considers the song's long afterlife and the stubborn persistence, decades later, of comic stereotypes of ‘Africans’ in Italian popular culture despite the growing number of African migrants and their children in Italian society.
- Subjects
ITALY; I Watussi (Music); EDOARDO Vianello e i Flippers (Performer); POPULAR culture; STEREOTYPES; TUTSI (African people); RWANDAN history, 1962-1994; HISTORY of the Congo (Democratic Republic), 1960-1997
- Publication
Modern Italy, 2013, Vol 18, Issue 4, p437
- ISSN
1353-2944
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/13532944.2013.812294