Ethiopia in 1930 Italian Popular Music

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Ethiopia in 1930 Italian Popular Music

Ethiopia in 1930 Italian Popular Music

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Between 1934 and 1936, more than a hundred musical pieces were published, recorded and broadcasted. The main subject of this vast repertoire was the Ethiopian lands and people, together with the Italian attempt to conquer them. Together these songs constitute a sonic memory of the Italian colonial endeavor in the 1930s. Although most of the compositions have been forgotten by historians and musicologists, they still need to be thoroughly analyzed in order to understand how such repertoire contributed to both the creation of racialized stereotypes in the Italian colonial discourse and the history of Italian popular music.

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MUSICAL STYLE

THEME

Accompagnamento ad Amba Alagi

#Theatrical Piece

#The Experience of the Soldier

Addis Adis Abeba

#Theatrical Piece

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#Racist Stereotypes
#Exoticism

Adua

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Adua nostra

#Traditional Form (a cappella)

#The Colonial Experience

Africa nostra

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Africanella

#Dance (one-step)

#Black Female Body

Africanina (pupetta mora)

#Dance (one-step)

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia
#Black Female Body

Amba Alagi

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Arriva il Negus

#Traditional form (mazurka)

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#Racist Stereotypes

Banane gialle

#Black Female Body

Bella abissina

#March (a cappella)

#The Colonial Experience
#Black Female Body

C’era una volta il Negus

#Dance (valzer)

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#Racist Stereotypes

Cantate di legionari

#The Experience of the Soldier
#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Canterà (Faccetta Nera)

#Canzone (Tenor)
#March

#Black Female Body

Canto dei volontari per l’Africa Orientale

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Cara mamma (lettera di un soldato)

#The Experience of the Soldier

Canzone del fante est africano

#Canzone (Tenor)

#The Experience of the Soldier

Carovane del Tigrai

#Dance (one-step)

#Exoticism
#The Colonial Experience

Casetta abissina

#Canzone (tenor)

#The Colonial Experience

Chissà il Negus che cosa dirà!?

#Dance (valzer)

#The Ethiopian Emperor

Ci rivedremo… ad Addis Abeba!

#Dance (one step)

#The Colonial Experience
#Exoticism

Cioccolatino

#Racist Stereotypes
#Black Female Body

Combatti e spera

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Da Trastevere a Dessiè

#Traditional Form

#The Colonial Experience

Din Don Della

#Canzone (tenor)
#Traditional Form

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#Racist Stereotypes

È arrivato il Sig. Tafari

#Theatrical Piece

#The Ethiopian Emperor

E co’ la barba del Negus

#No Music Found

#The Ethiopian Emperor

Er Sor Capanna in Abissinia

#Stornello (traditional form)

#Racist Stereotypes
#The Ethiopian Emperor
#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Etiopia

#The Experience of the Soldier
#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Etiopia nostra

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Faccetta Bianca

#The Experience of the Soldier

Faccetta Nera

#Black Female Body

Fiore del Tigrai

#Black Female Body

Fiore imperiale

#The Experience of the Soldier
#The Italian Army in Ethiopia
#Black Female Body

Gambette nere

#Dance (one-step)

#Black Female Body
#Racist Stereotypes

Il bottone del legionario

#Theatrical Piece

#Racist Stereotypes

Il canto dell’aviatore

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Il canto della controsanzione

#No Music Found

#International Sanctions

Il pianto del Negus

#No music found

#The Ethiopian Emperor

In Abissinia

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

In Abissinia (alla barba del Negus)

#Theatrical Piece

#Racist Stereotypes

In Africa si va

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia
#The Ethiopian Emperor

In barba alle sanzioni

#Theatrical Piece

#International Sanctinons
#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Inno a Macallè

#Dance (one-step)

#The Experience of the Soldier
#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Inno d’Africa

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia
#International Sanctions

Inno dell’Africa Orientale

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Inno – Marcia per i legionari dell’Africa Orientale

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

L’avventura di un soldato italiano con un’abissina

#No music found

#Black Female Body

L’Imperatore si confessa (Povero povero Selassiè)

#Theatrical Piece

#The Ethiopian Emperor

L’Italia ha vinto

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

L’Italia non s’arresta

#Theatrical Piece

#The Colonial Experience

La bella di Etiopia

La canzone d’Africa (Crivel’s version)

#Dance (one-step)

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

La canzone dei volontari

#Canzone (tenor)

#The Experience of the Soldier

La canzone dell’Africa

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

La canzone dell’Impero

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

La canzone della vittoria

#Dance (foxtrot)

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

La canzone di Addis Abeba

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

La canzone di Maria Uva

#The Experience of the Soldier
#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Leggenda d’Africa

#Canzone (Tenor)

#The Experience of the Soldier

Leggenda eroica

#The Experience of the Soldier

Lettera africana

#Theatrical Piece

#The Experience of the Soldier

Letterine d’Africa

#Canzone (tenor)

#The Experience of the Soldier

Macallè

#Canzone (Tenor)

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia
#Exoticism

Madonnina d’Oltremare

#Canzone (tenor)

#The Experience of the Soldier

Marcia del legionario (Roma rivendica l’Impero)

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Morettina

#Dance (one-step)

#Black Female Body
#The Experience of the Soldier

Negus Neghesti

#No Music Found

#The Ethiopian Emperor

Noi tireremo diritto

#International Sanctions

Notti abissine

#Canzone (tenor)

Oh sergentino

#The Experience of the Soldier

Povero Negus

#Stornello (traditional form)

#Racist Stereotypes
#The Ethiopian Emperor

Ras Tafar

#No Music Found

#The Ethiopian Emperor

Ritorna il legionario

#The Experience of the Soldier

Ritorno dall’Africa Orientale

#No music found

#Exoticism
#The Experience of the Soldier

Rondinella, camicina nera

#The Experience of the Soldier

Sanzionami Questo

#Canzone (tenor)

#International Sanctions

Serenata a Ginevra

#The Experience of the Soldier

Serenata a Sellassiè

#Canzone napoletana

#The Ethiopian Emperor

Si parte per l’A.O.

#Theatrical Piece

#The Experience of the Soldier
#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Si va in Abissinia (same as “Adua Nostra”)

#Traditional Form (a cappella)

#The Colonial Experience

Soldati dell’impero

#March
#Theatrical Piece

#The Experience of the Soldier
#The Colonial Experience

Sotto le stelle del Tigrai

#Dance (one-step)

#The Experience of the Soldier
#Exoticism

Storielle del Negus

#Stornello (traditional form)

#Racist Stereotypes
#The Ethiopian Emperor

Storielle nere

#Stornello (traditional form)

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#Racist Stereotypes

Stornellata abissina

#Stornello (traditional form)

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#Racist Stereotypes

Stornellata coloniale

#Stornello (traditional form)

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#Racist Stereotypes

Stornellata societaria

#Stornello (traditional form)

#International Sanctions

Stornellata tricolore

#Stornello (traditional form)

#International Sanctions
#The Italian Army in Ethiopia

Stornelli africani

#Stornello (traditional form)

#The Colonial Experience
#The Ethiopian Emperor
#The Experience of the Soldier

Stornelli al Negus Neghesti

#Canzone (tenor)
#Traditional Form

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#International Sanctions

Stornelli al Sig. Tafari

#Stornello (traditional form)

#The Ethiopian Emperor

Stornelli neri

#Stornello (traditional form)

#The Experience of the Soldier
#Racist Stereotypes

Strofette africane

#Stornello (traditional form)

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#Racist Stereotypes

Sul lago Tana

#Exoticism
#The Experience of the Soldier

Sul mercato di Macallè

#Theatrical Piece

#Exoticism
#Racist Stereotypes

Tarantella Imperiale

#Un posto al sole

Ti porterò con me in Abissinia

#Dance (foxtrot)

#The Colonial Experience

Ti porto in Italia

#Theatrical Piece
#March

#Black Female Body
#Racist Stereotypes

Ti saluto… (vado in Abissinia)

#The Experience of the Soldier

Topolino Balilla

#Theatrical Piece

#Racist Stereotypes

Topolino in Abissinia

#Theatrical Piece

#The Experience of the Soldier
#Racist Stereotypes

Un posticino ar sole

#Dance (two-steps)

#The Colonial Experience

Va fuori d’Italia (o prodotto stranier)

#Canzone (tenor)

#International Sanctions

Verso l’impero italico

#No music found

#The Italian Army in Ethiopia
#The Ethiopian Emperor

Vieni a Macallé

#Dance (one-step)

#The Colonial Experience

Voce dall’Africa

#The Experience of the Soldier

Voglio andare… dal Negus Neghesti

#No music found

#The Ethiopian Emperor
#Racist Stereotypes

Tags: #2021, #colonialsongs