Arts+Culture Lorenzo Ottone Arts+Culture Lorenzo Ottone

Is it Love or is it Folly? Cocoricò and 1990s Italian Riviera Clubbing

Cocoricò was pyramid-shaped club on the North East Italian coast that gave a voice to the Italian second summer of love generation and that forever subverted the rules of clubbing. A new book - E’ amore. o è follia? Cocoricò 1991-1992 - visually explores the activity and tremendous creativity of the discotheque that marked a pivotal time in the history of Italian and European music and pop culture.

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