Week 3 - Jan 23: Music, politics and society 1900-1945: labor songs, the fascist regime and the 'Resistenza'
Readings:
Sachs, Harvey. Music in Fascist Italy. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. Read pp. 55-86, 101- 106, 148-150, 241-243.
Labor songs (Mondine):
La lega (performed by Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYkrA2zPVAI
Se otto ore son troppo poche (performed by Mondine della Lomellina) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeRHD6tyJuM
Bella ciao (performed by Giovanna Daffini): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP-7kECZ6Ow
Emigration songs:
La ballata del carbonaro (performed by Riccardo Tesi): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0BH14XpHi0
Il tragico naufragio della nave Sirio (performed by Giovanna Marini & Francesco De Gregori): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKVS0aGFDsM
Italia bella mostrati gentile (performed by Caterina Bueno): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i14DnWs7ye0
Sacco e Vanzetti (performed by Giovanna Marini & Francesco De Gregori): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO8MmQVE4hc
Sacco and Vanzetti (Woody Guthrie):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0sYAU96FY0
Here's to you, Nicola and Bart (Ennio Morricone & Joan Baez): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oday_Fc-Gc
Fascism:
Faccetta nera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI_uOm3kxXU
Resistenza:
Bella ciao (performed by Modena City Ramblers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yCQOioTyY
Dalle belle città: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWTTmfwEww&feature=related
Dalle belle città (performed by Modena City Ramblers): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0bygJ2jBmE
