ITEM
Oh ! Littoria Item Info
Oh ! Littoria - item
- Object ID:
- demo_1677
- Creator:
- Columbia
- Type of Sound:
- Music
- Lyrics Composer:
- Augusto Vacca
- Music Composer:
- Costantino Ferri
- Instruments:
- Tenor; Choir; Orchestra
- Type of Music:
- Song
- Record Language:
- Italian
- Date:
- 1934 ?
- Identifier:
- DQ 906
- Linked Recording:
- demo_1678
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
- Description:
- This song won first prize in a competition organized by Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro. Littoria (now Latina) is a city built by the Fascist regime from June 1932, and inaugurated by Benito Mussolini in December 1932. It is located in the former Pontine marshes south of Rome, which Mussolini had drained in 1928 as part of his "Battle of the Grain" (Battaglia del grano) agricultural production policy. Built in a territory that had been " reclaimed ‘ (Bonifica), i.e. transformed to achieve a policy objective, Littoria was used by Fascist propaganda as an example of the success of one of the regime's ’great works". 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/oh-littoria-en/
- Performers:
- Crivel (Ferdinando Crivelli)
- Lyrics by:
- Augusto Vacca
- Music by:
- Costantino Ferri
- Instruments:
- Tenor Choir Orchestra
- Genre:
- Song
- Sound Type:
- Music
- Recording Language:
- Italian
- Related Record:
- demo_1678
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Oh ! Littoria", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
- Reference Link:
- http://localhost:4000/items/demo_1677.html
Rights
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights