Luigi Dallapiccola and Musical Modernism in Fascist Italy

List of contents

Preface; 1. Modernism before fascism; 2. The true spirit of Italian music; 3. Fascist modernism; 4. Protest music?; 5. The politics of commitment.

About the author

Ben Earle is a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, where he teaches the history, analysis and aesthetics of music. Before moving to Birmingham he completed a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and held a Junior Research Fellowship at St John's College, Oxford. His research interests lie in Italian and British music of the mid-twentieth century and his articles and reviews have appeared in a number of edited volumes and also in the journals Music and Letters, Music Analysis, Radical Musicology and Il saggiatore musicale. He is a member of the editorial board of Music Analysis. This is his first book.

Summary

Tracing the history of musical modernism in Italy from the fin de siècle to the Cold War, this book follows the work of Luigi Dallapiccola, the leading Italian composer of the mid-twentieth century, as he moved from support for the fascist regime to a committed resistance to totalitarianism.

Product details

• Authors: Ben Earle, Ben (University of Birmingham) Earle, Earle Ben
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781108746564
• ISBN: 978-1-108-74656-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Music Since 1900
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; European History, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / General, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Italy, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Composers and songwriters, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music