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Koloniale Expansion und faschistische Herrschaft durch Phonographie in Italienisch-Ostafrika

Author(s): Thomas, Jonathan

Abstract

Between 1935 and 1941, during its war against Ethiopia and subsequent colonization of East Africa, the Italian Fascist regime used recordings of propaganda songs and musicians from colonized territories to support its conquest and occupation of the short-lived Italian Empire. Through its mastery of sound and its modernity, phonography made it possible to assert the colonist’s civilizational identity, to expand Fascism, and then to dominate, appropriate and even collect the cultural productions of colonized populations. By examining Fascist phonography and the intertwined imaginaries of recorded sound devices, Italian identity and the essentialized African ‹Other›, this paper will show that phonography participated in the effort to extend and affirm Fascist domination outside Italy.

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Thomas, Jonathan: Koloniale Expansion und faschistische Herrschaft durch Phonographie in Italienisch-Ostafrika. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 16 (2024), Nr. 2, S. 55-67. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23154.
@ARTICLE{Thomas2024,
 author = {Thomas, Jonathan},
 title = {Koloniale Expansion und faschistische Herrschaft durch Phonographie in Italienisch-Ostafrika},
 year = 2024,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23154}",
 volume = 16,
 address = {Bielefeld},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {55--67},
}
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