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Neapolitan Postcards - The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject (Hardcover, New)
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Neapolitan Postcards - The Canzone Napoletana as Transnational Subject (Hardcover, New)
Series: Europea: Ethnomusicologies and Modernities
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The canzone napoletana-Neapolitan song-was one of the first
international popular musics of the modern era, traveling beyond
the city of Naples and the borders of Italy. Its success was due
largely to Italian emigrants, who composed, performed, recorded,
sold, and consumed the music in the forms of sheet music, piano
rolls, 78 rpm recordings, and performances. In Neapolitan Postcards
contributors address the unexplored transnational aspects of the
Neapolitan song. From its origins in Naples to its arrival-with
such classic songs as Core 'ngrato (1911) to Senza Mamma (1925)-in
New York City, Neapolitan song gained popularity among a larger
American public even as Italian immigrants were victimized as
racialized others. Its spread across the world over the course of
the twentieth century became evident as singers and musicians like
the Andrews Sisters, Charles Aznavour, Count Basie, Elvis Presley,
Violeta Rivas, Caetano Veloso, Frank Zappa, and others recorded
Neapolitan songs or incorporated it into their
compositions.Contributors address a broad range of topics raised by
this song tradition, such as its transnational character in Franco
Fabbri's examination of the song genre's movement between Naples,
Smyrna and Athens; its role as a cultural signifier in Paolo
Proto's study of Neapolitan song ethnic stereotypes; its presence
on stage in Giuliana Muscio's look at Italian-American sceneggiata;
and its place on screen in Giorgio Bertellini's essay on the
recently re-discovered film, Santa Lucia Luntana. The book is the
first scholarly work that considers specifically the complexity of
the international Neapolitan song scene through case studies from
Greece, Argentina, the Middle East, and the United States,
employing analyses of iconographical sources and international
films devoted to the canzone napoletana.
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