Open AccessThe politics оf spectacle: Italian music аnd Fascist propaganda
Author(s) -
Roberto Illiano,
Massimiliano Sala
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
muzikologija
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0976
pISSN - 1450-9814
DOI - 10.2298/muz120325010i
Subject(s) - spectacle , politics , cult , state (computer science) , mythology , personality , political science , art , media studies , aesthetics , sociology , law , literature , psychoanalysis , psychology , algorithm , computer science
Propaganda played a very important role during Fascism; the kind of propaganda used by Mussolini to build a totalitarian state was to a very large extent based on his own personality cult, on the myth of the leader. Despite the disastrous outcome of the Mussolini regime, the propaganda has outlived Mussolini himself. Cultivating the image therefore becomes an essential part of the mechanism of generating consensus, anticipating by more than half a century the politics of spectacle used today throughout the world