Fascists and Folklorists in Italy

Simeone, William E.

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“…It should be noted, however, that Gramsci did not think the fascist regime so opposed to folklore; to the contrary, he thought that Mussolini's government promoted folklore in order to forge a fascist nationalist identity and to keep large segments of the population ill-informed. For further information, see Cavazza 1987, Gunzberg 1983, and Simeone 1978 6. Scholars have been reticent to attend to Gramsci's views on language.…”

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Gramsci, Good Sense, and Critical Folklore Studies

Gencarella¹

2010

Journal of Folklore Research

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This article addresses the scholarly lacunae surrounding Antonio Gramsci's contributions to folklore studies in the English-speaking world. It contends that Gramsci's critique of folklore has often been misunderstood because it has not been read in tandem with his comments on language, common sense, and religion, nor has it been contextualized by his discussions of distinctions among folklore, philosophy, and science. This article provides a close reading of Gramsci's commentaries and draws a brief comparison with the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer in order to adapt these ideas for contemporary research, reclaim folklore's political legitimacy, and promote a critical folklore studies that would overtly address political dilemmas and human suffering.

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Gramsci, Good Sense, and Critical Folklore Studies

Gencarella¹

2010

Journal of Folklore Research

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“…9 Even in the domain of folklore generally the work of the country’s scholars highlighted regional differences rather than national unity (Simeone, 1978). It is perhaps ironic that folklore research, while generally prompted by nationalistic impulses throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, on the one hand revealed very local attitudes and, on the other, a universality in mythology and symbolism that extended beyond national and European borders.…”

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Ignored and forgotten: Research on Jewish-Italian music during the 19th and 20th centuries

Keller

2015

Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies

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Why has research on Italian Jewish music been until recently almost nonexistent? This can only in part be explained by the small number of Jews living in Italy, compared to other European countries. Nor is racism a convincing answer. Even in the early years of Fascism, before Mussolini enacted the racial laws in 1938, the Jewish presence in Italy was not perceived, by and large, as 'problematic'. Rather, what prevented people from gaining an awareness of Jewish culture was the peculiar form of the Italian nation-building project, which imposed an artificial notion of unified national culture upon a patchwork of local traditions. After unification, all Italians were forced to learn and speak one same language, forgetting their mixed origins-including their variegated musical traditions. In stark contrast to other European nations, where it was celebrated, folk music was ignored in Italy throughout the XIX century. Just as standard Italian overshadowed the many vernaculars, Opera became the only national musical language. A thorough investigation of the Italian Jewish tradition had to wait until the development, in the 1960s, of the international Folk Music Revival. Thanks to the work of ethnomusicologists like Alan Lomax and Leo Levi, the Jewish people's contribution to Italian musical life is now beginning to be acknowledged.

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‘Hodling’ on: Memetic storytelling and digital folklore within a cryptocurrency world

Yogarajah

2022

Economy and Society

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Fascists and Folklorists in Italy

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Gramsci, Good Sense, and Critical Folklore Studies

Gramsci, Good Sense, and Critical Folklore Studies

Ignored and forgotten: Research on Jewish-Italian music during the 19th and 20th centuries

‘Hodling’ on: Memetic storytelling and digital folklore within a cryptocurrency world

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