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La leggenda del Piave Item Info
La leggenda del Piave - item
- Object ID:
- demo_1807
- Creator:
- Pathé
- Type of Sound:
- Music
- Music Composer:
- E.A. Mario (Giovanni Gaeta)
- Instruments:
- Fanfare
- Type of Music:
- March
- Date:
- 1928 ?
- Identifier:
- E 16310
- Linked Recording:
- demo_1806
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights
- Description:
- This recording belongs to a repertoire of popular songs relating to the First World War, sung by Italian soldiers or written to celebrate their heroism. They predate the creation of the Italian Combat Fascists (Fasci italiani di combattimento) in March 1919, which became the National Fascist Party in November 1921. They were not designed for Fascist propaganda, but were part of it because of the extreme importance of the Great War in the history and imagination of the Fascist movement and regime. For the latter, it represented a purifying and regenerating nationalist ordeal, during which heroes and martyrs were created, and which ended in victory for Italy, but a "mutilated" victory that ignored its territorial claims, frustrated Italian nationalism and generated powerful resentment in the country. The remembrance and commemoration of the war through song are thus frequently used as a means of exploiting its immense deposit of symbolic and emotional resources. It was also at the heart of the historical process of entering and waging this war that Benito Mussolini set his political activity on the course that would lead to the creation of the Fascist movement and regime. Two songs from this repertoire feature prominently: "Leggenda del Piave" and "Canzone del Grappa". They refer directly to the Battles of Piave (between December 1917 and October 1918), in which the Italian and Allied armies repelled the invasion of Austro-Hungarian forces into Italy, culminating in a decisive victory for the outcome of the war, lost by the central empires in November 1918 (see Angelo Ventrone, "Grande Guerra", in Victoria De Grazia & Sergio Luzzatto (eds), Dizionario del fascismo. Vol. 1, A-K, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2019, p. 624-627 ; Oliver Janz, "Memoria della Grande Guerra", in Victoria De Grazia & Sergio Luzzatto (eds), Dizionario del fascismo. Vol. 1, A-K, Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2019, p. 627-630).
- Online Resources:
- http://id.sbn.it/bid/DDS0574371
- Music by:
- E.A. Mario (Giovanni Gaeta)
- Instruments:
- Fanfare
- Genre:
- March
- Sound Type:
- Music
- Related Record:
- demo_1806
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "La leggenda del Piave", REDIRE Database, Bonn Center for Digital Humanities (BCDH)
- Reference Link:
- http://localhost:4000/items/demo_1807.html
Rights
- Rights:
- metadata-only record, please check the publication for rights