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Da Trastevere a Dessie Item Info
Da Trastevere a Dessie - item
- Object ID:
- demo_1690
- Creator:
- Fonit - Fonodisco Italiano Trevisan
- Type of Sound:
- Music
- Lyrics Composer:
- Amleto Trinchieri
- Music Composer:
- Amleto Trinchieri
- Instruments:
- Tenor; Choir; Orchestra
- Type of Music:
- Song
- Record Language:
- Italian
- Date:
- 1936
- Identifier:
- 7433
- Linked Recording:
- demo_1689
- 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). This recording refers to Rome. The ancient capital of the Roman Empire, of which it preserves numerous remains, is the object of a myth and a cult of "Romanity" ("romanità") due to its embodiment of the history, symbols and values of the ancient empire (military power, heroism, imperialism, grandeur, glory) on which the Fascist regime bases its own symbolic apparatus and national imaginary. From the early 1920s, the city was redeveloped to showcase the Roman ruins, at the cost of destroying part of its later architectural heritage. Linking the Colosseum to Piazza Venezia, from which Benito Mussolini worked and delivered some of the most important speeches of the Fascist period, the "Via dell'Impero" (now "Via dei Fori Imperiali"), laid out between 1924 and 1932 to better showcase the many sites that line it, is an eloquent testimony to this highly symbolic urban policy.
- Online Resources:
- https://canzoneitaliana.it/en/canzone/da-trastevere-a-dessie-en/
- Performers:
- Amleto Trinchieri Alberto Semprini
- Lyrics by:
- Amleto Trinchieri
- Music by:
- Amleto Trinchieri
- Instruments:
- Tenor Choir Orchestra
- Genre:
- Song
- Sound Type:
- Music
- Recording Language:
- Italian
- Related Record:
- demo_1689
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Da Trastevere a Dessie", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
- Reference Link:
- http://localhost:4000/items/demo_1690.html
Rights
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights