Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century

Edited by Massimiliano Sala

Book cover: Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century

Extent: 483 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Music & Performing Arts, Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Speculum musicae

Series volume number: 22

Language: English, Italian, Spanish

Hardback (Published)

(May 2014)

ISBN: 9782503552460

Price: $163.00

In stock

This volume investigates the relationships between music and propaganda in the twentieth-century. Music can be utilised to attribute and ascribe multivalent meanings. Due to its great evocative power, it has often been directly exploited by regimes and governments. In what ways does music convey the messages of propaganda? Which are the political and economical implications behind musical propaganda? Much has been written about the relationship between music and propaganda during the two world wars, but the post-war dimensions of the topic also require investigation.

Massimiliano Sala is Vice President of the Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini (Lucca) and Secretary Treasurer of the Italian National Edition of Pietro Antonio Locatelli’s Complete Works. On the Board of the Scholarly Committees of the Italian National Edition of Muzio Clementi’s Complete Works and Italian National Edition of Luigi Boccherini’s Complete Works, he is a founder of Ad Parnassum Journal. His publications include writings on eighteenth- to twentieth-centuries music.

  • Edited by Massimiliano Sala