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2007

December 26, 2007

Ottava Rima in Bensonhurst

Joseph Sciorra
Joseph Sciorra
Antonino Provenzano reciting poetry at the Castel del Golfo Social Club, Brooklyn (December 1, 2007).

In a social club in Brooklyn, the lost poetry of a Sicilian contadino is heard again.

December 26, 2007

Vic Damone’s Italian Cousin

Joseph Sciorra
Vinicio Capossela

Italian singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela returns to the States in January 2008.

December 24, 2007

Gramsci’s Presepio

Joseph Sciorra
Joseph Sciorra
Underground Nativity, 2007.

The domestic presepio, an example of living folklore.

December 7, 2007

Sal Paradise was an Italophobe.

Joseph Sciorra
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/kerouac-spontaneous.html
Jack Kerouac

A little piece of drivel by Jack Kerouac begs the question, What's Italian-American about On The Road?

December 6, 2007

Salve

Joseph Sciorra
Dina Gerasia/The Malìa Collective website
La Società di Sant'Anna, Villa Avenue, Bronx, New York, c. 1940.

First post.