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The Politics of Verdi's Cantica (Paperback)
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The Politics of Verdi's Cantica (Paperback)
Series: Royal Musical Association Monographs
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The Politics of Verdi's Cantica treats a singular case study of the
use of music to resist oppression, combat evil, and fight
injustice. Cantica, better known as Inno delle nazioni / Hymn of
the Nations, commissioned from Italy's foremost composer to
represent the newly independent nation at the 1862 London
International Exhibition, served as a national voice of pride and
of protest for Italy across two centuries and in two very different
political situations. The book unpacks, for the first time, the
full history of Verdi's composition from its creation, performance,
and publication in the 1860s through its appropriation as
purposeful social and political commentary and its perception by
American broadcast media as a 'weapon of art' in the mid twentieth
century. Based on largely untapped primary archival and other
documentary sources, journalistic writings, and radio and film
scripts, the project discusses the changing meanings of the
composition over time. It not only unravels the complex history of
the work in the nineteenth century, of greater significance it
offers the first fully documented study of the performances, radio
broadcast, and filming of the work by the renowned Italian
conductor Arturo Toscanini during World War II. In presenting new
evidence about ways in which Verdi's music was appropriated by
expatriate Italians and the US government for cross-cultural
propaganda in America and Italy, it addresses the intertwining of
Italian and American culture with regard to art, politics, and
history; and investigates the ways in which the press and broadcast
media helped construct a musical weapon that traversed ethnic,
aesthetic, and temporal boundaries to make a strong political
statement.
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