Overview
- Provides the first collection of multi-disciplinary research on the experience of Italian-Jewish musicians in Fascist Italy
- Examines the impact of the Italian Race Laws and Fascist Italy's relationship with Nazi Germany on Jewish musicians composers
- Sheds light on a relatively under-researched period of music history
Part of the book series: Italian and Italian American Studies (IIAS)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is the first collection of multi-disciplinary research on the experience of Italian-Jewish musicians and composers in Fascist Italy. Drawing together seven diverse essays from both established and emerging scholars across a range of fields, this book examines multiple aspects of this neglected period of music history, including the marginalization and expulsion of Jewish musicians and composers from Italian theatres and conservatories after the 1938–39 Race Laws, and their subsequent exile and persecution. Using a variety of critical perspectives and innovative methodological approaches, these essays reconstruct and analyze the impact that the Italian Race Laws and Fascist Italy’s musical relations with Nazi Germany had on the lives and works of Italian Jewish composers from 1933 to 1945. These original contributions on relatively unresearched aspects of historical musicology offer new insight into the relationship between the Fascist regime and music.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Annalisa Capristo is a librarian at the Center for American Studies in Rome, Italy. Her research focuses on anti-Semitic and racial laws in Fascist Italy, on which she has published several books and papers. In 2019, she co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Modern Italian Studies on the eightieth anniversary of the Racial Laws.
Alessandro Carrieri is an independent scholar. He was previously Visiting Research Fellow in Holocaust Studies at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He has also held a research position at the University of Trieste, Italy, and an honorary research position at the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italian Jewish Musicians and Composers under Fascism
Book Subtitle: Let Our Music Be Played
Editors: Alessandro Carrieri, Annalisa Capristo
Series Title: Italian and Italian American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52931-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52930-7Published: 14 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52933-8Published: 14 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52931-4Published: 13 May 2021
Series ISSN: 2635-2931
Series E-ISSN: 2635-294X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 210
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Italy, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Jewish Cultural Studies, Music