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Book Music in Fascist Italy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harvey Sachs
  • Publisher : New York : W.W. Norton
  • Release : 1988
  • ISBN : 9780393025637
  • Pages : 271 pages

Download or read book Music in Fascist Italy written by Harvey Sachs and published by New York : W.W. Norton. This book was released on 1988 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Jazz Italian Style

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Harwell Celenza
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-06
  • ISBN : 1107169771
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Jazz Italian Style written by Anna Harwell Celenza and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the arrival of jazz in Italy, its reception and development, and how its distinct style influenced musicians in America.

Book Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism

Download or read book Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism written by Alessandro Carrieri and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy

Download or read book Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy written by Ben Earle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism

Download or read book Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism written by Tim Redman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating account of Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism allows the reader to understand the causes and results of Pound's ideology and actions.

Book The Pope and Mussolini

Download or read book The Pope and Mussolini written by David I. Kertzer and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War

Download or read book Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War written by David A. Forgacs and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Mussolini and the Jews

    Book Details:
  • Author : Meir Michaelis
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Mussolini and the Jews written by Meir Michaelis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Fascist Voices

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Duggan
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 019933837X
  • Pages : 526 pages

Download or read book Fascist Voices written by Christopher Duggan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Mussolini is remembered as a hated dictator who, along with Hitler and Stalin, ushered in an era of totalitarian repression unsurpassed in human history. But how was he viewed by ordinary Italians during his lifetime? In Fascist Voices, Christopher Duggan draws on thousands of letters sent to Mussolini, as well as private diaries and other primary documents, to show how Italian citizens lived and experienced the fascist regime under Mussolini from 1922-1943. Throughout the 1930s, Mussolini received about 1,500 letters a day from Italian men and women of all social classes writing words of congratulation, commiseration, thanks, encouragement, or entreaty on a wide variety of occasions: his birthday and saint's day, after he had delivered an important speech, on a major fascist anniversary, when a husband or son had been killed in action. While Duggan looks at some famous diaries-by such figures as the anti-fascist constitutional lawyer Piero Calamandrei; the philosopher Benedetto Croce; and the fascist minister Giuseppe Bottai-the majority of the voices here come from unpublished journals, diaries, and transcripts. Utilizing a rich collection of untapped archival material, Duggan explores "the cult of Il Duce," the religious dimensions of totalitarianism, and the extraordinarily intimate character of the relationship between Mussolini and millions of Italians. Duggan shows that the figure of Mussolini was crucial to emotional and political engagement with the regime; although there was widespread discontent throughout Italy, little of the criticism was directed at Il Duce himself. Duggan argues that much of the regime's appeal lay in its capacity to appropriate the language, values, and iconography of Roman Catholicism, and that this emphasis on blind faith and emotion over reason is what made Mussolini's Italy simultaneously so powerful and so insidious. Offering a unique perspective on the period, Fascist Voices captures the responses of private citizens living under fascism and unravels the remarkable mixture of illusions, hopes, and fears that led so many to support the regime for so long.

Book Italian Music During the Fascist Period

Download or read book Italian Music During the Fascist Period written by Roberto Illiano and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present volume 23 specialists investigate a number of significant aspects of Italian music history during the Fascist period. Included are also unpublished documents and fresh information on composers like Ferruccio Busoni, Alfredo Casella, Aldo Finzi, Adriano Lualdi, Gian Francesco Malipiero and Ottorino Respighi. The last section of the book commemorates the centenary of the birth of Luigi Dallapiccola (Pisino dIstria 1904 - Firenze 1975) by collecting the most recent research on his music. The authors featured are: Vincenzo Alaimo, Chiara Bianchi, Eleonora Carapella, Ermanno Comuzio, Mila De Santis, Benjamin Earle, Christoph Flamm, Roberto Illiano, Erik Levi, Charles Maier, Fiamma Nicolodi, Carlo Piccardi, Luca Sala, Massimiliano Sala, Michela Niccolai, Giovanella Pacini, Karen Painter, Gemma Perez-Zalduondo, Luigi Pestalozza, Graham Phipps, Laureto Rodoni, Michael Walter and Martina Weindel.

Book Fascism  Anti Fascism  and the Resistance in Italy

Download or read book Fascism Anti Fascism and the Resistance in Italy written by Stanislao G. Pugliese and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the historical significance of fascism and anti-fascism is still being hotly debated in Europe and around the world, this anthology offers a new look at the many faces of repression and resistance. Stanislao G. Pugliese brings together a wide range of voices that illuminate more than eighty years of fascism and anti-fascism in Italy. Many of the pieces, including letters from women to Mussolini and anti-fascist graffiti from a Nazi prison in Rome, are available in English for the first time. The selections include historical documents, political analysis, stories, songs, and memoirs from a variety of perspectives. Taken together, the documents provide a compelling account of the political, historical, economic, and social impact of fascism and the resistance. Touching on fields as far ranging as political science, history, women's studies, and religion, Fascism, Anti-Fascism, and the Resistance in Italy is immediate, human, and eminently readable.

Book The United States and Fascist Italy

Download or read book The United States and Fascist Italy written by Gian Giacomo Migone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Italian in 1980, Migone covers the relationship between the United States and Italy during the interwar years.

Book Blood and Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Foot
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2022-06-09
  • ISBN : 152665248X
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Blood and Power written by John Foot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-09 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after the rise to power of Fascism in Italy, John Foot's bracing and bold Blood and Power vividly recreates the on-the-ground experience of life under the regime. - Robert S C Gordon, Serena Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge A major history of the rise and fall of Italian fascism: a dark tale of violence, ideals and a country at war. In the aftermath of the First World War, the seeds of fascism were sown in Italy. While the country reeled in shock, a new movement emerged from the chaos: one that preached hatred for politicians and love for the fatherland; one that promised to build a 'New Roman Empire', and make Italy a great power again. Wearing black shirts and wielding guns, knives and truncheons, the proponents of fascism embraced a climate of violence and rampant masculinity. Led by Mussolini, they would systematically destroy the organisations of the left, murdering and torturing anyone who got in their way. In Blood and Power, historian John Foot draws on decades of research to chart the turbulent years between 1915 and 1945, and beyond. Using the accounts of real people – fascists, anti-fascists, communists, anarchists, victims, perpetrators and bystanders – he tells the story of fascism and its legacy, which still, disturbingly, reverberates to this day.

Book Italian Fascism and the Female Body

Download or read book Italian Fascism and the Female Body written by Gigliola Gori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first text to examine women and sport in Italy during the period 1861-1945. To qualify and quantify the impact of fascism on Italian Women's sport, the author first of all examines the pre-fascist period in terms of female physical culture. The text then describes how during the fascist era, women moved strictly within a framework designed by medicine and eugenics, religious and traditional education. The country aspired to emancipation, as promised by the fascist revolution but emancipation was hard to advance under the fascist regime because of male hegemonic trends in the country. This book shows how the engagement of women in some sporting activity did promote and support some gender emancipation. The conclusion of the book demonstrates how, in the post-war period, women found it hard to advance further on, for a number of reasons.

Book The Twelve tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola

Download or read book The Twelve tone Music of Luigi Dallapiccola written by Brian Alegant and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the great twentieth-century Italian composer's innovative handling of harmony, form, and text setting.

Book The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy

Download or read book The Politics of Everyday Life in Fascist Italy written by Joshua Arthurs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini’s regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime’s incursions into everyday life. The contributions highlight the experiences of ordinary Italians – midwives and schoolchildren, colonists and soldiers – over the course of the Fascist era, in settings ranging from the street to the farm, and from the kitchen to the police station. At the same time, this volume also provides a framework for understanding the Italian experience in relation to other totalitarian dictatorships in twentieth-century Europe and beyond.

Book Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy

Download or read book Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy written by John Champagne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic Modernism and Masculinity in Fascist Italy is an interdisciplinary historical re-reading of a series of representative texts that complicate our current understanding of the portrayal of masculinity in the Italian fascist era. Champagne seeks to evaluate how the aesthetic analysis of the artifacts explored offer a more sophisticated and nuanced understanding of what world politics is, what is at stake when something - like masculinity - is rendered as being an element of world politics, and how such an understanding differs from more orthodox 'cultural' analyses common to international relations.