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REDIRE · Recorded Sound Propaganda of the Italian Fascist Regime

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Период: 2023-10-01 → 2025-09-30
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Участници: 3
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Звуковите записи на грамофонни плочи се анализират като инструмент за пропаганда на италианския фашизъм. Това помага да се разбере как тоталитарните режими използват технологиите за съхранение и разпространение на звук, за да популяризират своите политически идеи.

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Recorded Sound Propaganda of the Italian Fascist Regime

The first political regime to be designated as totalitarian, Italian fascism (1922-1943) deployed intense propaganda, whose use of the press, radio, and cinema has already been extensively studied. However, another of its tools has been overlooked: the phonograph record, which nevertheless played a key role in disseminating fascist policies and imagination. Situated at the intersection of history, sound studies, and media studies, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action REDIRE (Recorded Sound Propaganda of the Italian Fascist Regime) has pioneered the study of phonography, sound, and propaganda through the Fascist era. This innovative research has revealed the political role of phonography in Fascist Italy by tracing its production, describing its uses as a means of propaganda, and analyzing how the imagery of recorded sound and music was intertwined with Fascist imagery to promote the regime. Based at the University of Bonn, REDIRE benefited from a training and archival research focus secondment at the University of Cagliari and from the expertise of leading researchers in sound studies, media studies, history, and musicology. Four research and innovation objectives (ROs) have been pursued. RO1. Establish an online and open access database of discs (metadata plus short descriptions of discs' uses) employed for propaganda by the Fascist regime by examining disc catalogs, press and State archives. RO2. Analyze the conception, realization and effects of Fascist recorded sound propaganda to inform its political Imaginary. RO3. Determine how and why the capacities of discs to store, reproduce and amplify sound are exploited by fascist propaganda. RO4. Understand better the political functioning of technicized sound in a totalitarian regime by comparing the recorded sound propaganda of Fascist Italy to those practiced in Nazi Germany and interwar democratic France. REDIRE also highlighted the more general strategic role of sound in the representation, and the realization, of the Italian fascist regime, showing how it had been used to support colonialism, aestheticize and territorialize the fascist imagination, exercise and strengthen the regime's hold over the Italian masses.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

If much has been said about the use of radio by the Italian fascists to establish and lead a regime that they wanted totalitarian from its advent, other devices of technicized sound, especially discs and their political affordances and effects, have been neglected. However, discs and phonographs were among the first technical sound devices and media to be available for political propaganda. Since the end of the 19th century, they have enabled political actors in the USA and Europe to transcend the time and space of their practice and to multiply their presence. In the interwar period, discs and recorded sound became fundamental parts of propaganda devices designed to elicit ideas, behavior, and adherence to a political project from massive audiences through sound. It appears then necessary to question the political functioning, the practices, and the social effects of propaganda discs, alone or associated with the radio or the loudspeaker, especially in a regime that its actors wished totalitarian. With ""REcorded Sound PropaganDa of the Italian Fascist REgime"" (REDIRE), I wish to inform the political role and effects of discs in the context of Italian fascism and to participate to the reflection on the political functioning of (technicized) sound, especially in a totalitarian regime. To do so, I will study the propaganda conceived by the regime to support the policies of development or perpetuation of fascism in time (education, identity, conservation and manipulation of cultural heritage) and space (colonization, war, transnational soft power, international existence of Italy). Through an investigation of the State archives and the press, I will examine the political uses of recorded sound engaged by fascist socio-technical networks, from their imaginary conception to their realization and their social effects. Finally, fascist and nazi recorded sound propaganda will be compared to better understand the political functioning of sound in a totalitarian regime.""

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN · BonnКоординаторГермания
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI CAGLIARI · CagliariИталия
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE · UdineИталия