a taxonomy of partisan songs
recently, preparing the ginzburg geography, i have been deep in italian partisan music. i learned a lot of these songs, probably too many... i am all set to do a program for very old men in bologna. anyway, after thinking about this a lot, i concluded that you can divide the songs in a variety of ways. unsurprisingly, there's not songs about people who do the grunt work of starting political parties and then get tortured to death for putting out the