ITEM
Inno dell'Asse Item Info
Inno dell'Asse - item
- Object ID:
- demo_0691
- Creator:
- Cetra
- Type of Sound:
- Music
- Music Composer:
- Iviglia
- Instruments:
- Wind instrument ensemble
- Type of Music:
- Hymn
- Date:
- 1941
- Identifier:
- IT 1165
- Linked Recording:
- demo_0692
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
- Description:
- Italy's entry into the Second World War in June 1940 was accompanied by a large production of light songs with military overtones. These songs, whose themes - like others before them - included heroism and sacrifice in battle, patriotic and Fascist faith, the love of parents, wives and children, the invasion of England and the alliance with Nazi Germany, were mostly sung by men. They are broadcast on the radio, in the press (Il Canzoniere della radio) or as sheet music, and are recorded by the major record companies. In addition to the phonographic repertoire of these light songs, there was also a repertoire of purely military songs and music, representing a particular army corps, as well as older songs, some of them taken from popular films. All these songs and musics are aimed as much at the audience of those who stayed behind as at the soldiers who went to the front, but they are not all successful and pose a stratigic problem for war propaganda. The records that carry them are often grouped together, within the catalogs of the companies that sell them, in sections dedicated to wartime phonography (see Pietro Cavallo & Pasquale Iaccio, Vincere! Fascismo e società italiana nelle canzoni e nelle riviste di varietà (1935-1943), Napoli, Liguori editore, 2003, pp. 109-136). During the ventennio, national anthems and other songs representative of a nation are sometimes released on record at a time when the Fascist regime has very good relations, or an alliance, with a foreign nation. Releasing these foreign anthems on record was probably a way of representing these diplomatic relations and cultivating a feeling of sympathy, even closeness, between the peoples of the nations involved. 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:
- -
- Music by:
- Iviglia
- Instruments:
- Wind instrument ensemble
- Genre:
- Hymn
- Sound Type:
- Music
- Related Record:
- demo_0692
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Inno dell'Asse", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
- Reference Link:
- http://localhost:4000/items/demo_0691.html
Rights
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
- Standardized Rights:
- Cetra, Catalogo dischi, 1942