The politics оf spectacle: Italian music аnd Fascist propaganda

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Fascism
• Propaganda
• Race
• Mussolini
• Petrassi