February
February 28, 2009
LaVeritàLaVerdadTheTruth
La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar (2006), Giuseppe Gagliardi, dir.
Giuseppe Gagliardi’s film La vera leggenda di Tony Vilar is a musical journey tracing the circuitous routes of the Italian diaspora.
February 21, 2009
An American Folklorist in Italy
Alan Lomax/Association for Cultural Equity
Moncalvo (Asti province), Piemonte, October 7, 1954.
Alan Lomax’s stunning photographs from Italy (1954-1955) are published.
February 18, 2009
What’s his name?! What’s his name?!
True Love (1989), Nancy Savoca, dir.
Italian-American naming traditions of abandonment, reclamation, nicknaming, and forgetting.
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