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This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States
explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by
and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The
essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast
intimate messages from family members in Italy to the role of
immigrant cookbook writers in crafting a fashionable Italian food
culture. Other works look at how exoticized actresses like Sophia
Loren and Pier Angeli helped shape a glamorous Italian style out of
images of desperate postwar poverty; overlooked forms of brain
drain; the connections between countries old and new in the works
of Michigan self-taught artist Silvio Barile; and folk revival
performer Alessandra Belloni's reinterpretation of tarantella dance
and music for Italian American women. In the afterword, Anthony
Julian Tamburri discusses the nomenclature ascribed to Italian
American creative writers living in Italy and the United States.
Contributors: John Allan Cicala, Simone Cinotto, Teresa Fiore,
Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra, Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra, and
Anthony Julian Tamburri.
Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an
international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals,
performed across the Italian diaspora, even adapted for New Age
spiritual practices. The boom in popularity has diversified
tarantella in practice while setting it within a host of new,
unexpected contexts. Incoronata Inserra ventures into the history,
global circulation, and recontextualization of this fascinating
genre. Examining tarantella's changing image and role among
Italians and Italian Americans, Inserra illuminates how factors
like tourism, translation, and world music venues have shifted the
ethics of place embedded in the tarantella cultural tradition. Once
rural, religious, and rooted, tarantella now thrives in settings
urban, secular, migrant, and ethnic. Inserra reveals how the
genre's changing dynamics contribute to reimagining Southern
Italian identity. At the same time, they translate tarantella into
a different kind of performance that serves new social and cultural
groups and purposes. Indeed, as Inserra shows, tarantella's global
growth promotes a reassessment of gender relations in the Italian
South and helps create space for Italian and Italian-American women
to reclaim gendered aspects of the genre.
This second volume of New Italian Migrations to the United States
explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by
and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The
essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast
intimate messages from family members in Italy to the role of
immigrant cookbook writers in crafting a fashionable Italian food
culture. Other works look at how exoticized actresses like Sophia
Loren and Pier Angeli helped shape a glamorous Italian style out of
images of desperate postwar poverty; overlooked forms of brain
drain; the connections between countries old and new in the works
of Michigan self-taught artist Silvio Barile; and folk revival
performer Alessandra Belloni's reinterpretation of tarantella dance
and music for Italian American women. In the afterword, Anthony
Julian Tamburri discusses the nomenclature ascribed to Italian
American creative writers living in Italy and the United States.
Contributors: John Allan Cicala, Simone Cinotto, Teresa Fiore,
Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra, Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra, and
Anthony Julian Tamburri.
Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an
international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals,
performed across the Italian diaspora, even adapted for New Age
spiritual practices. The boom in popularity has diversified
tarantella in practice while setting it within a host of new,
unexpected contexts. Incoronata Inserra ventures into the history,
global circulation, and recontextualization of this fascinating
genre. Examining tarantella's changing image and role among
Italians and Italian Americans, Inserra illuminates how factors
like tourism, translation, and world music venues have shifted the
ethics of place embedded in the tarantella cultural tradition. Once
rural, religious, and rooted, tarantella now thrives in settings
urban, secular, migrant, and ethnic. Inserra reveals how the
genre's changing dynamics contribute to reimagining Southern
Italian identity. At the same time, they translate tarantella into
a different kind of performance that serves new social and cultural
groups and purposes. Indeed, as Inserra shows, tarantella's global
growth promotes a reassessment of gender relations in the Italian
South and helps create space for Italian and Italian-American women
to reclaim gendered aspects of the genre.
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