Please note the venue of the seminar:
Dr Carrieri will analyse Aldo Finzi's and Leone Sinigaglia's musical experiences as an act of cultural and spiritual opposition to the Italian Fascist Regime. In fact, during the persecution of the Jews in Italy, their music was silenced as it was considered to be degenerate.
Despite this, both Finzi and Sinigaglia continued their work as musicians clandestinely as an act of unarmed resistance. The activity of non-violent resistance should not be seen as a passive surrendering, but rather as one of the most authentic and profound forms of cultural and political opposition to Fascism.
Their music is a direct testimony of how Jewish musicians were able to resist the Fascist cultural policy through their art. Thus, their music becomes a historical document, a visual and auditory memorial of artistic resistance in Italy under Fascism.
Dr. Alessandro Carrieri is currently Teaching Associate in Italian Studies and Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation at Monash University.
In 2013-14 he was a Research Fellow at the Department of Political and Social Science at the University of Trieste.
His latest publications are: Lagermusik e resistenza. Viktor Ullmann e Gideon Klein a Theresienstadt, Silvio Zamorani Editore, Torino, 2013 and The Voice of Resistance in Concentrationary Music in «Political Perspectives» 2013, vol. 7 (2), University of Manchester.
