This book examines the reputation of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (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 'Bartókian Wave' occurring in Italy after the Second World War was the result of the fusion of the Bartók 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 Bartók into a martyr, just as the Resistenza and the catastrophe of war had redeemed post-war Italy.

La presente monografia esamina l'eredità del musicista ungherese Béla Bartók (1881-1945) come eroe politico, compositore d'avanguardia ed etnomusicologo. In particolare, il libro esplora le connessioni fra musica, politica e diplomazia attraverso la ricezione italiana di Bartók, dall'inizio del ventesimo secolo fino agli anni Cinquanta. L'ampio contesto culturale a cui fa riferimento lo studio in oggetto offre anche degli spunti per l'analisi di temi più ampi: le politiche culturali italiane durante e dopo il fascismo, la questione della resistenza culturale e l'uso politico della musica modernista.

Béla Bartók in Italy. The Politics of Myth-Making / Palazzetti, Nicolo'. - (2021).

Béla Bartók in Italy. The Politics of Myth-Making

Palazzetti, Nicolo'
2021

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This book examines the reputation of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (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 'Bartókian Wave' occurring in Italy after the Second World War was the result of the fusion of the Bartók 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 Bartók into a martyr, just as the Resistenza and the catastrophe of war had redeemed post-war Italy.
2021
9781783276202
La presente monografia esamina l'eredità del musicista ungherese Béla Bartók (1881-1945) come eroe politico, compositore d'avanguardia ed etnomusicologo. In particolare, il libro esplora le connessioni fra musica, politica e diplomazia attraverso la ricezione italiana di Bartók, dall'inizio del ventesimo secolo fino agli anni Cinquanta. L'ampio contesto culturale a cui fa riferimento lo studio in oggetto offre anche degli spunti per l'analisi di temi più ampi: le politiche culturali italiane durante e dopo il fascismo, la questione della resistenza culturale e l'uso politico della musica modernista.
Béla Bartók; music analysis; Italian history; fascism; Italian resistance movement; modernism; music and politics
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Béla Bartók in Italy. The Politics of Myth-Making / Palazzetti, Nicolo'. - (2021).
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