Gramsci's Influence in Popular Culture
Music:
- Gramsci Melodic – American (Pittsburgh) synthpop band
- Scritti Politti – British alternative band
- Billy Bragg – English folk musician
Theatre:
- Occupations – Gramsci is a central character in Trevor Griffiths's 1970 play about workers taking over car factories in Turin in 1920.
Television: Emily Thomas
- Spaced – Series 1 Episode 5 features a dog named Gramsci, named by his owner after "an Italian Marxist" to help in his campaign against the ruling class by hunting down the rich. One character claimed that the dog could smell wealth from twenty feet away.
Cities
- Genoa A major road going through the lower portion of Genoa, along the coast, is named after Antonio Gramsci.
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