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    "title": "Futurism in Venice, Crisis and “la musica dell’avvenire,” 1924*",
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    "abstract": "In January 1924 the latest incarnation of Futurist music theatre, Il Nuovo Teatro Futurista, began a twenty-eight city tour of the peninsula. The Venice stopover, at the Teatro Goldoni on January 25, prompted a flurry of media activity. Press reports, manifestos, and one-off periodicals advertized and then discussed the performance. Central to this Futurist-controlled discourse was the notion of \nla musica dell’avvenire\n, one that built on recent technological developments to provide a way out of a perceived crisis of musical language. The Futurists positioned themselves as inhabiting a moment of transition: soothsayers of a musical future that no one else could imagine. In this article I argue that these three aspects—Futurism as a media enterprise, \nla musica dell’avvenire,\n and cultural crisis—share a common impulse, as offshoots of contemporary concerns with media and technology, culture and posterity, and language and crisis, all of which had a pervasive import in postwar Italian culture. I suggest that the Futurists sought to control media networks, so as to take charge amid a culture of crisis. Yet in the process, their rhetoric of extremes saw a disavowal of all they were most reliant on—something that in the end proved their undoing. In particular, their futurology was contradicted by a reliance on older media, genres, and sounds, which revealed them to be an embodiment of the crisis from which they were trying to detach themselves. I seek to excavate the aesthetic and historical stakes that contributed to this deep-seated contradiction, and to illustrate the predicament at the heart of postwar 1920s Italian culture: of forging a path to the future amid the ever-present ruins of the past.",
    "language": "en",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Music Theatre, Futurism, Venice, Crisis"
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        {
            "word": "music"
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        {
            "word": "cultural history"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Futurist Sound",
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        {
            "first_name": "Harriet",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Boyd",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Oxford",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2013-05-29T07:43:35Z",
    "date_accepted": "2013-05-29T07:43:35Z",
    "date_published": "2014-03-03T05:05:41Z",
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