Description
In recent years, from an openly postcolonial perspective, global investigations have been conducted into the creative reflections of the East/West encounter, through an exploration of the relationships between colonialism, styles, and musical practices. Within these studies, the contributions to colonial musical folklore produced by military personnel, officials, and music experts are universally recognized as having undeniable value, even though they possess limited scientific merit and were conducted with inadequate methodologies of the time. For example, in the context of the history of Italian colonialism in Africa, these contributions represent the only existing sources to date on the musical culture of African societies subjected to Italian rule between the late 19th and the first half of the 20th century, and they serve as an irreplaceable source of information for analyzing the relationship between culture and power during the historical period in question. This work will consider the writings of Carlo Conti Rossini, a civil affairs official in the Eritrean government from 1900 to 1903 and later the general secretary for political and civil affairs in Tripolitania from 1914 until October 1915. Throughout his life, alongside his duties as a public official, he conducted studies on the culture, language, and history of Ethiopia, producing in-depth works on the language, literature, and local traditions of the populations in this territory. The investigation will explore what contributions these documents can bring to contemporary postcolonial studies.
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