ITEM
Allegre legioni Item Info
Allegre legioni - item
- Object ID:
- demo_0625
- Creator:
- Parlophon
- Type of Sound:
- Music
- Music Composer:
- Giulio Andrea Marchesini
- Instruments:
- Fanfare; Conductor
- Type of Music:
- March
- Date:
- 1940
- Identifier:
- GP 93131
- Linked Recording:
- demo_0626
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
- Source:
- 1940 06 16 RC_FASC_PUB
- 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. The record to which this recording belongs is included in the "Hymns, marches and wartime songs" section of the Cetra label's 1942 catalog.
- Online Resources:
- -
- Performers:
- Banda degli Agenti di Polizia di Stato Giulio Andrea Marchesini
- Music by:
- Giulio Andrea Marchesini
- Instruments:
- Fanfare Conductor
- Genre:
- March
- Sound Type:
- Music
- Related Record:
- demo_0626
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Allegre legioni", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
- Reference Link:
- http://localhost:4000/items/demo_0625.html
Rights
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
- Standardized Rights:
- Cetra, Catalogo dischi, 1942