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Object ID:
demo_0543
Creator:
Cetra
Type of Sound:
Music
Music Composer:
De Muro
Instruments:
Wind instrument ensemble; Conductor
Type of Music:
Hymn March
Date:
1940
Identifier:
IT 777
Linked Recording:
demo_0544
Rights:
metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
Description:
The main subjects of this song are the legion and the legionnaires, particularly exploited by Fascist propaganda from the second Italo-Ethiopian conflict (1935-1936) onwards, and later during Italy's engagement in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1940-1943). As the word was used in the Italian army before Benito Mussolini came to power, the "legion" designates a basic military unit which, in the context of Fascist Italy, also refers to the ancient Roman imperial armies and activates their imaginary. The legionnaire, expected to fight and die in the name of the "Duce", embodies the values central to Fascism and its propaganda. When he helps Italy regain its "greatness", the legionnaire is a hero and a good patriot. When he dies in combat, he is a martyr, and his death represents an exemplary, desirable sacrifice. In addition to his love for his country and for B. Mussolini, songs featuring the legionnaire evoke his feelings for the mother, fiancée or wife he has left to fight far from home; songs featuring the legion evoke also a collective heroism. Legionnaires and the Legion are therefore major symbolic figures for the regime as soon as it sets out to wage war, and needs to activate and regulate the feelings that will motivate a possibly fatal military engagement, and make it accepted, even desired, by those who won't be going to the battlefront.
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Performers:
Complesso di strumenti a Fiato Ennio Arlandi
Music by:
De Muro
Instruments:
Wind instrument ensemble Conductor
Genre:
Hymn March
Sound Type:
Music
Related Record:
demo_0544
Source
Preferred Citation:
"Inno della Legione Universit. "Principe di Piemonte"", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
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http://localhost:4000/items/demo_0543.html
Rights
Rights:
metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
Standardized Rights:
Dischi Cetra, October 1940
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