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Opera, Workers, and Song: Toward a Turin Cantology (2023)
Book Chapter
Boyd-Bennett, H. (in press). Opera, Workers, and Song: Toward a Turin Cantology. In Sonic Circulations 1900-60: Music, Modernism, and the Politics of Knowledge. University of Pennsylvania Press (Penn Press)

Worker Internationalism, Local Song and the Politics of Urban Space (2023)
Journal Article
Boyd-Bennett, H. (2023). Worker Internationalism, Local Song and the Politics of Urban Space. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 147(2), 571-582. https://doi.org/10.1017/rma.2022.26

At the height of the strikes and factory occupations that marked Turin’s biennio rosso (‘two red years’, 1919–20) a series of songs circulated among the workers. I will focus on two of these songs – La guardia rossa and Miśeria, miśeria – to listen t... Read More about Worker Internationalism, Local Song and the Politics of Urban Space.

Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde (2018)
Book
Boyd-Bennett, H. (2018). Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316718476

Beginning from the unlikely vantage point of Venice in the aftermath of fascism and World War II, this book explores operatic production in the city's nascent postwar culture as a lens onto the relationship between opera and politics in the twentieth... Read More about Opera in postwar Venice: cultural politics and the Avant-Garde.

Futurism in Venice, Crisis and "la musica dell'avvenire", 1924 (2014)
Journal Article
BOYD, H. (2014). Futurism in Venice, Crisis and "la musica dell'avvenire", 1924. California Italian Studies, 4(1),

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 repor... Read More about Futurism in Venice, Crisis and "la musica dell'avvenire", 1924.