2007
December 26, 2007
Ottava Rima in Bensonhurst
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
Vinicio Capossela
Italian singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela returns to the States in January 2008.
December 24, 2007
Gramsci’s Presepio
Joseph Sciorra
Underground Nativity, 2007.
The domestic presepio, an example of living folklore.
December 7, 2007
Sal Paradise was an Italophobe.
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
Dina Gerasia/The Malìa Collective website
La Società di Sant'Anna, Villa Avenue, Bronx, New York, c. 1940.
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