Ideologia come stile, stile come ortodossia. La costruzione di un immaginario spettacolare nel progetto artistico dei CCCP

The musical group CCCP, also known as "Faithful to the Line", has been characterised by a particularly strong consistency in its artistic project and image, drawing inspiration from many elements (Filo-Sovietism, Eastern cultures of the Middle and Far East, and the popular culture of Aemilia, their place of origin). In its early years, the band was part of a diverse group of activists, artists and bohemians influenced by the continental European punk subculture, all engaged in a multidisciplinary effort to realise the same idea of an alternative subcultural expression, deeply rooted in the intention to construct a distinction based on a reconfiguration of punk's communicative détournement in a different cultural context. CCCP's interpretation of punk can be described, in Dick Hebdige's terms, as a spectacular construction of disparate elements of contemporary popular culture, arranging a series of imaginary relationships in new and original ways. Such a reconfiguration finds in their music both an opportunity for aggregation and a privileged means of communication. In this article I will show how their artistic project and its coherence echoes in their songs, and how an expansion of their stylistic language corresponds historically to an increasing concentration on music as their primary interest within the overall industrial asset of contemporary popular culture, which - in the end - will also bring the project to its conclusion and end.