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July 30, 2008
Youth Masses, Black Skin, and Italian Beat Music
I Barrittas singing "Gloria al Signore" (w/commentary)
A look at the Italian youth masses of the 1960s, beat music, and una ragazza from New Orleans.
February 11, 2008
Luciano Chessa’s Musical Inventions
Luciano Chessa
From Part Two of "Variazioni su un oggetto di scena" for piano and stuffed animals
Sardinia, San Francisco, the traditional, the avant-garde: everything finds a home in Luciano Chessa's music.
March 1, 2008
Gramsci, Cinema, Photography and Music
Casa del Cinema, Villa Borghese, Rome
Listening, watching, and thinking about culture as a political tool.
August 26, 2008
Italian Metal Gets Religion
Fratello Metallo
An Italian monk hears Metallica and turns the mystical and divine into heavy metal.
December 24, 2010
Vince Guaraldi--“the sound of Yuletide on these shores”
Charles M. Schulz/Vince Guaraldi
Italian version of Charlie Brown's Christmas Album, 1979
Some Italian-American notes about the man behind the music of Charlie Brown’s Christmas.
October 12, 2011
Il Fanciullo del West: Shorty Joe Quartuccio’s Country Western Sound
Shorty Joe and his Red Rock Canyon Cowboys - 1947
(Shorty Joe Quartuccio, Bob Simas, & Jim Franchina)
A Few Notes on California’s Sicilian American country music history.
October 12, 2011
Il Fanciullo del West: Shorty Joe Quartuccio’s Country Western Sound
Shorty Joe and his Red Rock Canyon Cowboys - 1947
(Shorty Joe Quartuccio, Bob Simas, & Jim Franchina)
A Few Notes on California’s Sicilian American country music history.
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