Bela Bartok in Italy (eBook)

The Politics of Myth-Making

Nicolo Palazzetti (Autor)

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2021
320 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer (Verlag)
9781800101852 (ISBN)

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Examines the reputation of the Hungarian musician Bela Bartok (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero.This book examines the reputation of the Hungarian composer Bela Bartok (1881-1945) as an antifascist hero and beacon of freedom. Following Bartok's reception in Italy from the early twentieth century, through Mussolini's fascist regime, and into the early Cold War, Palazzetti explores the connexions between music, politics and diplomacy. The wider context of this study also offers glimpses into broader themes such as fascist cultural policies, cultural resistance, and the ambivalent political usage of modernist music.The book argues that the 'Bartokian Wave' occurring in Italy after the Second World War was the result of the fusion of the Bartok myth as the 'musician of freedom' and the Cold War narrative of an Italian national regeneration. Italian-Hungarian diplomatic cooperation during the interwar period had supported Bartok's success in Italy. But, in spite of their political alliance, the cultural policies by Europe's leading fascist regimes started to diverge over the years: many composers proscribed in Nazi Germany were increasingly performed in fascist Italy. In the early 1940s, the now exiled composer came to represent one of the symbols of the anti-Nazi cultural resistance in Italy and was canonised as 'the musician of freedom'. Exile and death had transformed Bartok into a martyr, just as the Resistenza and the catastrophe of war had redeemed post-war Italy.

Inhalt

Introduction
Chapter 1: Bartók in Liberal Italy, 1911-1925
Chapter 2: Heroism and Silence: Bartók in Mussolini's Italy, 1925-1938
Chapter 3: Resistance and Dictatorship, 1939-1942
Chapter 4: Resistance and Democracy, 1943-1947
Chapter 5: Bartók's Legacy in a Divided World, 1948-1956
Chapter 6: Bartók's Influence on Italian Composers
Conclusion: Bartók and the Memory of the Twentieth Century
Bibliography
Appendix: Performances of Bartók's Works in Italy between 1911 and 1950
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2021
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: antifascist hero • Béla Bartók • Cold War • Cultural Policies • cultural resistance • Hungarian musician • Italian-Hungarian cooperation • Italy • music • Politics
• ISBN-13: 9781800101852 / 9781800101852