ITEM

Bimbe del littorio Item Info

Bimbe del littorio - item

Object ID:
demo_1062
Creator:
Columbia
Type of Sound:
Music
Lyrics Composer:
M. P. Moneta
Music Composer:
Giuseppe Pettinato
Instruments:
Choir; Conductor
Type of Music:
Hymn March
Record Language:
Italian
Date:
1937
Identifier:
DQ 2510
Linked Recording:
demo_1061
Rights:
metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
Source:
Corriere Musicale Rassegna Fonografica, January 15, 1938
Description:
This recording belongs to a repertoire of hymns and marches representing the Fascist youth institution Opera Nazionale Balilla (ONB), founded in 1926 and replaced by the "Gioventù Italiana del Littorio" in 1937. The ONB's various branches divided up young Italian boys and girls aged 8 to 18, providing them with Fascist cultural, political, physical and military training. Regarded as the future of the regime, especially from a military perspective, the children had to be exemplary in their devotion to Italy and to Benito Mussolini, in order to form a united patriotic and Fascist community. It is probably to achieve this goal that the songs representing the various male and female branches of the ONB are often performed by children's choirs, trained in schools mostly located in Milan, the city from which the Fascist movement developed (see Antonio Gibelli, "Opera Nazionale Balilla", in Victoria De Grazia & Sergio Luzzatto (eds), Dizionario del fascismo. Vol. 2, L-Z, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2019, p. 267-271).
Performers:
Coro Scuole Professionali Società Umanitaria Giuseppe Pettinato
Lyrics by:
M. P. Moneta
Music by:
Giuseppe Pettinato
Instruments:
Choir Conductor
Genre:
Hymn March
Sound Type:
Music
Recording Language:
Italian
Related Record:
demo_1061
Source
Preferred Citation:
"Bimbe del littorio", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
Reference Link:
http://localhost:4000/items/demo_1062.html
Rights
Rights:
metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
Standardized Rights:
Dischi Columbia, Catalogo I. semestre gennaio giugno, 1939