Music in Fascist Italy

Music in Fascist Italy
Author: Harvey Sachs
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton
Total Pages: 271
Release: 1988
Genre: Composers
ISBN: 9780393025637

Looks at the ways Mussolini's government attempted to control music, describes the reactions of individual composers and musicians, and examines Mussolini's own musical pretenstions

Jazz Italian Style

Jazz Italian Style
Author: Anna Harwell Celenza
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2017-03-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107169771

This book examines the arrival of jazz in Italy, its reception and development, and how its distinct style influenced musicians in America.

Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy

Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy
Author: Ben Earle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521844037

Luigi Dallapiccola is widely considered a defining figure in twentieth-century Italian musical modernism, whose compositions bear passionate witness to the historical period through which he lived. In this book, Ben Earle focuses on three major works by the composer: the one-act operas Volo di notte ('Night Flight') and Il prigioniero ('The Prisoner'), and the choral Canti di prigionia ('Songs of Imprisonment'), setting them in the context of contemporary politics to trace their complex path from fascism to resistance. Earle also considers the wider relationship between musical modernism and Italian fascism, exploring the origins of musical modernism and investigating its place in the institutional structures created by Mussolini's regime. In doing so, he sheds new light on Dallapiccola's work and on the cultural politics of the early twentieth century to provide a history of musical modernism in Italy from the fin de siècle to the early Cold War.

Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism

Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism
Author: Alessandro Carrieri
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 3030529312

This book is the first collection of multi-disciplinary research on the experience of Italian-Jewish musicians and composers in Fascist Italy. Drawing together seven diverse essays from both established and emerging scholars across a range of fields, this book examines multiple aspects of this neglected period of music history, including the marginalization and expulsion of Jewish musicians and composers from Italian theatres and conservatories after the 1938–39 Race Laws, and their subsequent exile and persecution. Using a variety of critical perspectives and innovative methodological approaches, these essays reconstruct and analyze the impact that the Italian Race Laws and Fascist Italy’s musical relations with Nazi Germany had on the lives and works of Italian Jewish composers from 1933 to 1945. These original contributions on relatively unresearched aspects of historical musicology offer new insight into the relationship between the Fascist regime and music.

Fascist Spectacle

Fascist Spectacle
Author: Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520926153

This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini's elaboration of a new ruling style to the shaping of the regime's identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms that would represent its political novelty, fascism in fact brought itself into being, creating its own power and history. Falasca-Zamponi argues that an aesthetically founded notion of politics guided fascist power's historical unfolding and determined the fascist regime's violent understanding of social relations, its desensitized and dehumanized claims to creation, its privileging of form over ethical norms, and ultimately its truly totalitarian nature.

Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism

Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism
Author: Tim Redman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1991-03-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521373050

This fascinating account of Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism allows the reader to understand the causes and results of Pound's ideology and actions.

The Pope and Mussolini

The Pope and Mussolini
Author: David I. Kertzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0198716168

The compelling story of Pope Pius XI's secret relations with Benito Mussolini. A ground-breaking work, based on seven years of research in the Vatican and Fascist archives by US National Book Award-finalist David Kertzer, it will forever change our understanding of the Vatican's role in the rise of Fascism in Europe.

Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy

Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy
Author: Guido Bonsaver
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0802094961

The history of totalitarian states bears witness to the fact that literature and print media can be manipulated and made into vehicles of mass deception. Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy is the first comprehensive account of how the Fascists attempted to control Italy's literary production. Guido Bonsaver looks at how the country's major publishing houses and individual authors responded to the new cultural directives imposed by the Fascists. Throughout his study, Bonsaver uses rare and previously unexamined materials to shed light on important episodes in Italy's literary history, such as relationships between the regime and particular publishers, as well as individual cases involving renowned writers like Moravia, Da Verona, and Vittorini. Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy charts the development of Fascist censorship laws and practices, including the creation of the Ministry of Popular Culture and the anti-Semitic crack-down of the late 1930s. Examining the breadth and scope of censorship in Fascist Italy, from Mussolini's role as 'prime censor' to the specific experiences of female writers, this is a fascinating look at the vulnerability of culture under a dictatorship.

Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War

Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War
Author: David A. Forgacs
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 754
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253219485

From the 1930s to the 50s in Italy commercial cultural products were transformed by new reproductive technologies and ways of marketing and distribution, and the appetite for radio, films, music and magazines boomed. This book uses new evidence to explore possible continuities between the uses of mass culture before and after World War II.

Mussolini and the Jews

Mussolini and the Jews
Author: Meir Michaelis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1978
Genre: History
ISBN:

Analyzes the various stages by which the fascist regime passed from anti-racialism to racial antisemitism on the German model, by focusing on the impact of German-Italian relations on the evolution of the racial question in Italy. Shows how fascist antisemitic policy was shaped by the necessities of the Axis agreement from the beginning, despite the fundamental conflicts of interest and the different positions toward racism. Examines direct and indirect German interference in Italian policy, as well as the reaction of Italian Jews to fascism. Based on unpublished records.