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June 29, 2009
Vittoria Pietropaoli, An Appreciation
Vittoria Pietropaoli and Francesco Fabbi, returning from a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Santissima Trinità di Vallepietra, circa 1976.
A contadina performer of musica popolare is a constant companion.
May 15, 2009
Dean Benedetti, Jazz Ethnographer
Dean Benedetti, Torre del Lago, circa 1955
Vilified for decades, Dean Benedetti is now lauded as a “true jazz hero.”
May 8, 2009
Routes of Return
Scene from Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura (1960 ).
Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 film "L’avventura" provides a cinematic voyage back to Italy.
March 25, 2009
Chalking Memory
Joseph Sciorra
Chalk memorial to Triangle Factory Fire victims, 509 East 13th Street, New York, March 25, 2009.
Remembering the victims of the Triangle Factory Fire victims.
March 14, 2009
Thinking Neapolitan
Courtesy: Mark Pezzano
Logo of Edizione Pennino, Brooklyn, New York, 1927.
The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject
March 11, 2009
Bologna 1977
Joseph Sciorra
Piccolo Bar, Piazza Verdi, Bologna, April 1977.
Images and sounds from an extraordinary time.
March 1, 2009
LaVeritàLaVerdadTheTruth
La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar (2006), Giuseppe Gagliardi, dir.
Giuseppe Gagliardi’s film La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar is a musical journey tracing the circuitous routes of the Italian diaspora.
February 22, 2009
An American Folklorist in Italy
Alan Lomax/Association for Cultural Equity
Moncalvo (Asti province), Piemonte, October 7, 1954.
Alan Lomax’s stunning photographs from Italy (1954-1955) are published.
February 18, 2009
What’s his name?! What’s his name?!
True Love (1989), Nancy Savoca, dir.
Italian-American naming traditions of abandonment, reclamation, nicknaming, and forgetting.
January 19, 2009
The Vergognosi of Staten Island
"Italian Americans for Obama" 2008 presidential campaign sticker.
Again, Italian Americans are involved in racist attacks. Again, it's time to speak up.
January 19, 2009
Sacred Space, Real Estate, and the Enacted Environment
Joseph Sciorra
Santa Febronia Catholic Society’s chapel in Hoboken, New Jersey, September 14, 2008.
Two religious buildings historically associated with Italian-American Catholics face challenges to survive.
December 23, 2008
An Epic of Mediterranean Culture
Joe Milone and his Exhibited Shoe Shine Stand, 1942.
Sixty-six years ago, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited a Sicilian-American bootblack’s decorated shoeshine kit, contributing to the museum director’s eventual dismissal.
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