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May 2, 2008
Holy Land USA, a Religious Vision in Ruins
Joseph Sciorra
Holy Land USA, Waterbury, CT, 2005.
During the 1960s and 1970s, 40,000 people visited Waterbury, CT annually to pray at Holy Land USA, a Catholic theme park created by John Greco. Now it lies in ruins.
March 30, 2008
Gino Vitale, Brooklyn developer and shrine builder.
Joseph Sciorra
Gino Vitale, with one of his Red Hook shrine buildings in the background, March 24, 2008.
Brooklyn developer Gino Vitale adapts the centuries old edicole sacre (devotional shrines) to his newly constructed buildings.
March 19, 2008
St. Joseph's Altar, Barese Style
Joseph Sciorra
Antonietta Vitucci's St. Joseph's altar, March 18, 2008.
Celebrating St. Joseph in Brooklyn and some thoughts on lived religion.
July 11, 2008
Una malia contro il malocchio dei prominenti.
Eliza Putnam Heaton, "By-Paths in Sicily"
"Door Charms for the Evil Eye" (detail), Sicily, circa 1910.
Iettature, malie, & la lingua a strascinuni in the 21st century.
September 26, 2010
The Man Who Played Judas
Photograph courtesy of Stephanie Romeo.
Stefano Romeo (1884-1942)
In Search of an Italian-American Actor.
December 25, 2007
Gramsci’s Presepio
Joseph Sciorra
Underground Nativity, 2007.
The domestic presepio, an example of living folklore.
August 21, 2008
Sending a Telegram to the Pope
Power, Humor, and the Triumph of the Lower Bodily Stratum.
May 5, 2011
Talking Folklore
Over the next several months, I will be presenting the book Italian Folk in venues throughout the New York metropolitan area.
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- Talkin’ Hybrid Moments
- italianrap è morto! Viva Italian Rap!
- Sal Paradise was an Italophobe.
- A Ph.D. in Basket Weaving
- Sinatra, a Morality Tale.
- A Tourist Visits Italian in California
- Operation Rescue Flowerpot
- "C'è la luna": Anatomy of an Italian-American "Folk" Song
- The New Negative Image of Italian Americans
- A moribund italianità.
- The Vergognosi of Staten Island
- The Cultural Politics of Coffee
- St. Joseph's Altar, Barese Style
- Lace in the Crystal City
- Remembering James Groppi
- Mr. Piccolo’s Peculiar Obsession
- Linking the Diaspora Musically
- Bologna 1977
- An entry from The Encyclopedia of Imagined Italian-Americana
- Whose Day Is It Anyway?
- The Decorated Flowerpots of Brooklyn
- Williamsburg Radicale
- Serendipitous Encounters of an Italian-American Kind
- Una malia contro il malocchio dei prominenti.
- Fear and (Self-)Loathing in Italian America
- The Italian-American Political & Moral Bocce Club of Paradise's Inaugural Annual Spring Fling Dinner Dance, Gala, and Reception
- My Italian American Museum
- What’s his name?! What’s his name?!
- Paul Zarzyski, Italian-American Rodeo Poet
- Return of the Italian-American Voldemort
- The Wacky World of Arthur Piccolo
- Rethinking 150 Years
- Tony Soprano Made Me Do It!
- An American Folklorist in Italy
- Chi è Pete Panto?
- The Italian-American Political & Moral Bocce Club of Paradise Funds the Documentary Film Baci Bocce!!!
- Benefit Concert for Calandra Institute, June 10th
- Wise Men Melchior and Balthazar banned in northern Italian city.
- Folk Performances of the Italian-American Prominenti
- Chalking Memory
- Backyard Figs from Brooklyn
- Talking Folklore
- Watching Mob Movies with my Fourteen-Year-Old Son
- An Ex-W.O.P. Casts His Vote
- Thinking Neapolitan
- The Sound of Italian-American Cultural Philanthropy
- Francesco Pepe, My Dutch Paisan
- Vittoria Pietropaoli, An Appreciation
