Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Körner Axel
    Opera and nation in nineteenth‐century Italy: conceptual and methodological approaches
    in Journal of Modern Italian Studies , Volume 17, Issue 4, 2012 ,  2012 ,  393-399
    Abstract The article responds to existing debates between historians and musicologists interested in exploring the connection between culture and politics, patriotism and opera, music and the Risorgimento in nineteenth-century Italy. Scholars in both disciplines tend to make assumptions about the nature of this relationship without investigating its content on the basis of methodologically informed archival research. Starting from three specific examples, the article argues that some of the operas that historians consider to be patriotic in content were not necessarily understood in this way by the protagonists of the Risorgimento. The article goes on to introduce the various contributions to this special issue, linking them to themes that historians and musicologists interested in the connection between opera and the Risorgimento need to explore in order to make this relationship meaningful.
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