Canti di partecipazione e di resistenza a Mumbai

Abstract

Since the construction of the first spinning mills in the mid-nineteenth century, Mumbai has grown with the expansion of cotton manufacture. But between the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the millennium, there was the closure of the great factories, a stratified process, expression of a multitude of causes, which is usually brought back to the more general concept of “deindustrialization”. The transformations of the city over the years have been and are still today narrated by the urban bards, lok shahirs, who, drawing inspiration from the folklore legacy of Maharashtra, sang the birth of industry, the toil of work, the commitment of workers in social and political movements, the disillusionment of de-industrialization and, subsequently, the expulsion of a considerable mass of people from the new post-industrial city.