ITEM
Il canto dei Dopolavoristi Item Info
Il canto dei Dopolavoristi - item
- Object ID:
- demo_1525
- Creator:
- Odeon
- Type of Sound:
- Music
- Lyrics Composer:
- Attilio Frescura
- Music Composer:
- Giuseppe Pettinato
- Instruments:
- Choir; Orchestra; Conductor
- Type of Music:
- March
- Record Language:
- Italian
- Date:
- 1939
- Identifier:
- GO 19540
- Linked Recording:
- demo_1526
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
- Source:
- Corriere Musicale Rassegna Fonografica, March 15, 1939
- 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). This recording represents the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro (OND) or participates in promoting the leisure policy it implements. Created in 1925 by the regime, the OND was aimed at workers, whose unions it intended to replace (the site of an intolerable socialist policy opposed with great violence) and to organize leisure time ("Dopolavoro"). By bringing together several thousand workers' associations engaged in a wide range of activities, and directing them in line with Fascist policies, the OND enabled the regime to put down roots in the world of work, organize a significant part of Italians' leisure time by mixing politics and culture, and invest a little more of their private lives. In this way, it contributed to the realization of Fascist totalitarianism (see Victoria De Grazia, "Dopolavoro", in Victoria De Grazia & Sergio Luzzatto (eds), Dizionario del fascismo. Vol. 1, A-K, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2019, pp. 443-447).
- Online Resources:
- https://canzoneitaliana.it/en/canzone/canto-dei-dopolavoristi-en/
- Performers:
- Coro di Piccole italiane della R. Scuola T. Confalonieri di Milano Giuseppe Pettinato
- Lyrics by:
- Attilio Frescura
- Music by:
- Giuseppe Pettinato
- Instruments:
- Choir Orchestra Conductor
- Genre:
- March
- Sound Type:
- Music
- Recording Language:
- Italian
- Related Record:
- demo_1526
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Il canto dei Dopolavoristi", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
- Reference Link:
- http://localhost:4000/items/demo_1525.html
Rights
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights