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Object ID:
demo_0897
Creator:
Columbia
Type of Sound:
Music
Lyrics Composer:
Plinio Maggi
Music Composer:
Simonetti
Instruments:
Tenor; Choir; Orchestra
Type of Music:
Song
Record Language:
Italian
Date:
1936
Identifier:
DQ 1760
Linked Recording:
demo_0898
Rights:
metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
Description:
This recording is part of a vast propaganda repertoire of popular songs designed to accompany the political preparation and conduct of the Second Italo-Ethiopian Conflict, followed by the victory of Fascist troops and the founding of the Italian Empire in East Africa. These songs evoke this colonial war and its finality, using a wide range of modes and themes. In addition to the war and the Fascist martyrs, many of these songs assert the legitimacy of Italian colonization of Ethiopia, and more broadly of East Africa, presenting it in particular as a liberating and civilizing mission carried out among indigenous populations who were allegedly enslaved by the Emperor of Ethiopia, the Negus Haile Selassie. Throughout this repertoire, colonized populations are the subject of racist representations. When they evoke the "African woman", these racist representations also become sexual (see Gianpaolo Chiriacò, "Afrovocality – Ethiopia in 1930 Italian Popular Music", https://afrovocality.com/eirpop/ethiopia-in-1930-italian-popular-music/, accessed on February 12, 2025).
Online Resources:
http://id.sbn.it/bid/DDS0209163
Performers:
Umberto Bertini
Lyrics by:
Plinio Maggi
Music by:
Simonetti
Instruments:
Tenor Choir Orchestra
Genre:
Song
Sound Type:
Music
Recording Language:
Italian
Related Record:
demo_0898
Source
Preferred Citation:
"Er sor capanna in Africa - Parte I", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
Reference Link:
http://localhost:4000/items/demo_0897.html
Rights
Rights:
metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
Standardized Rights:
Dischi Columbia, Catalogo I. semestre gennaio giugno, 1936
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