Broadcasting the Italian voice's broadcasting: opera and Italy on the air, 1920s–1930s. Issue 4 (8th August 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Broadcasting the Italian voice's broadcasting: opera and Italy on the air, 1920s–1930s. Issue 4 (8th August 2022)
- Main Title:
- Broadcasting the Italian voice's broadcasting: opera and Italy on the air, 1920s–1930s
- Authors:
- Vella, Francesca
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Within the early twentieth-century Italian radiophonic imagination, opera occupied a complex position. The overriding 'voice' of Italy and its radio empire under Fascism, opera supported the new technology as a political and cultural tool, even as it challenged it as a geographical and perceptual fantasy. This article has two aims. First, drawing on materials from 1920s and '30s radio magazines, it sketches a history of early radio listening that restores vision and touch to a more central position than they have had in previous scholarly accounts. Second, it investigates radio and the Italian operatic voice as two mutually broadcasting technologies, ones whose critical co-construction was more than an accident of the fraught political moment. Contemporary definitions of radio as bel canto and of bel canto as radiophonic rested on a subtler, conceptual alignment between the two media, each of which foregrounded a tension between sound and meaning and implied the radial dissemination of voice 'out' in all directions. This article thus seeks to answer two questions. Did opera, a fundamentally audiovisual genre, become invariably 'sonified' through radiophonic transmission? And what happened when that old broadcasting technology, the Italian voice, met the new communications medium?
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of modern Italian studies. Volume 27:Issue 4(2022)
- Journal:
- Journal of modern Italian studies
- Issue:
- Volume 27:Issue 4(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 27, Issue 4 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 27
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0027-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 504
- Page End:
- 527
- Publication Date:
- 2022-08-08
- Subjects:
- radio -- opera -- sound reproduction -- silence -- intermediality -- multisensoriality
radio -- opera -- riproduzione del suono -- silenzio -- intermedialità -- multisensorialità
Italy -- History -- 20th century -- Periodicals
Italy -- History -- 19th century -- Periodicals
Italy -- Civilization -- 20th century -- Periodicals
Italy -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Periodicals
945.091 - Journal URLs:
- http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/app/home/journal.asp?wasp=57390c1a91b54385bb491cd2577a21e7&referrer=parent&backto=searchpublicationsresults, 1, 1;homemain, 1, 1; ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmis20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/1354571X.2021.1999724 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1354-571X
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- Legaldeposit
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