Laura Basini
Publications | Research Interests | Professional Associations
| Title: | Assistant Professor of Music History |
| Office Hours: |
Monday 1.30-3.30pm; Wednesday, 1.30-2.30pm |
| E-mail: | lbasini@csus.edu |
| Office Phone: |
(916) 278-6558 |
| Mailing Address: |
Department of Music |
Laura Basini holds a B.A. in Music from Oxford University (England), and a Ph.D. in the History and Literature of Music from the University of California, Berkeley. Before taking up her current position at C.S.U.S., she held a Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Basini has presented at international musicology colloquia and conferences including events at Duke University, Cambridge University (England), Yale University, Lucca (Italy), and the University of Toronto. Her writing has been published in Cambridge Opera Journal, 19th-Century Music, and Journal of Musicological Research.
Dr. Basini’s research investigates the relationships between music and politics, particularly in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy. She has published on the influences of post-Unification politics on the late music of Verdi, the appropriation of Verdi as a political figurehead in twentieth-century architecture and film, and the music of Puccini. Dr. Basini’s secondary fields of study include music in the fascist era, ideologies of neoclassicism, and film music. Her most recent work examines images of the Italian South in verismo opera and stage representations of Empire during Mussolini’s rule. Dr. Basini serves on the editorial board of the journal Music and Politics (www.lukema.net/map).
Publications
“Manon Lescaut and the Myth of America." Accepted for publication in Opera Quarterly, forthcoming Spring 2008.
"Masks, Minuets, and Murder: Images of Italy in Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci.” Accepted for publication in The Journal of the Royal Musical Association, forthcoming November 2007 / May 2008.
“Visions of Empire on the Italian Opera Stage.” Accepted for publication by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in Empire: Borders, Borderlands, and Border Cultures, ed. Martin Moll.
“Puccini’s Humming Chorus with Jean-Pierre Ponnelle,” Atti del convegno internazionale, Lucca 2004, ed. Arthur Groos, forthcoming.
Review of Michal Grover-Friedlander, Vocal Apparitions. The Attraction of Cinema to Opera. Music and Letters 87/4 (2006), 683-685.
Review of Annie J. Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis, Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of The Girl of the Golden West. Journal of Musicological Research 24/3-4 (July-December 2005), 345-348.
“The Plays of Art are for a Playful Art: History, Puzzles, and Play in Verdi's Falstaff,” University of Toronto Quarterly 74/2 (Spring 2005), 740-749. Special Issue: Opera and Interdisciplinarity II.
“Verdi and Sacred Revivalism in Post-Unification Italy,” 19th-Century Music 28/2 (Fall 2004), 133-159.
“Remembering Verdi in Post-War Italian Film,” Verdi 2001. Atti del convegno internazionale, Parma-New York-New Haven, ed. Roberta Marvin and Fabrizio Della Seta. Florence: Olschki, 2002, 671-679.
‘“Cults of Sacred Memory’: Parma and the Verdi Centennial Celebrations of 1913,” Cambridge Opera Journal 13/2 (July 2001), pp. 141-161.
Research Interests
- Music and politics; Italian opera; music in the fascist era; ideologies of neoclassicism; film music.
Professional Associations
Last updated: 04/25/2007
