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The Art of Making Do in Naples (Paperback)
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The Art of Making Do in Naples (Paperback)
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“In Naples, there are more singers than there are unemployed
people.” These words echo through the neomelodica music scene, a
vast undocumented economy animated by wedding singers, pirate TV,
and tens of thousands of fans throughout southern Italy and beyond.
In a city with chronic unemployment, this setting has attracted
hundreds of aspiring singers trying to make a living—or even a
fortune. In the process, they brush up against affiliates of the
region’s violent organized crime networks, the camorra. In The
Art of Making Do in Naples, Jason Pine explores the murky
neomelodica music scene and finds himself on uncertain ground. The
“art of making do” refers to the informal and sometimes illicit
entrepreneurial tactics of some Neapolitans who are pursuing a
better life for themselves and their families. In the neomelodica
music scene, the art of making do involves operating do-it-yourself
recording studios and performing at the private parties of crime
bosses. It can also require associating with crime boss-impresarios
who guarantee their success by underwriting it with extortion, drug
trafficking, and territorial influence. Pine, likewise “making
do,” gradually realized that the completion of his ethnographic
work also depended on the aid of forbidding figures. The Art of
Making Do in Naples offers a riveting ethnography of the lives of
men who seek personal sovereignty in a shadow economy dominated, in
incalculable ways, by the camorra. Pine navigates situations
suffused with secrecy, moral ambiguity, and fears of ruin that
undermine the anthropologist’s sense of autonomy. Making his way
through Naples’s spectacular historic center and outer slums, on
the trail of charmingly evasive neomelodici singers and
unsettlingly elusive camorristi, Pine himself becomes a music video
director and falls into the orbit of a shadowy music promoter who
may or may not be a camorra affiliate. Pine’s trenchant
observations and his own improvised attempts at “making do”
provide a fascinating look into the lives of people in the gray
zones where organized crime blends into ordinary life.
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