Ferramonti: Interpreting Cultural Behaviors and Musical Practices in a Southern-Italian Internment Camp

by Silvia Del Zoppo, Christian Jansen (Editor)

Overview

Ferramonti di Tarsia was the largest internment camp in Southern Italy, both in terms of its size and number of internees - mainly Jews from Germany, Poland, Yugoslavia. An almost forgotten chapter of the Italian history, it served as an absurd and ephemeral meeting place of cultures, languages, religions, and traditions. Both as a fascist camp (1940-1943) and as a DP-camp under British mandate (1943-1945), Ferramonti experienced an intensive musical life, whose features and peculiarities are reconstructed in this book on the basis of personal and administrative sources. Musical practices and cultural behaviors proved fundamental for inmates’ survival and preservation of their individual and collective identities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631857335
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	08/24/2021
Series:	Italien in Geschichte und Gegenwart , #38
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Silvia Del Zoppo is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Turin and teaching assistant at the University of Milan. After her studies in piano, musicology and philosophy, she received her cotutelle PhD in Musicology and in Literature, Arts and Environmental Heritage at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Università degli Studi di Milano. She was awarded the «Lucia Forneron» prize for a research stay at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the «Maurizio e Clotilde Pontecorvo» grant for a research project at MEIS (Museo dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah – Ferrara).

Table of Contents

Music and the Shoah: The Limits of Representation and the Representation of Limits – History of Ferramonti – A critical approach to Lagermusik – Music in Captivity – Musical Practices and Lageralltag – Interned Musicians – Musical practices as cultural behaviors – Music in response to the aporias of the internment