Italian American Folklore

Author : Frances M. Malpezzi
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874835335
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian-American Folklore written by Frances M. Malpezzi and published by august house. This book was released on 1992 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian-Americans compose one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States, numbering more than 14 million in the 1990 census. Though they have often been portrayed in fiction and film, these images are often based on stereotypes not borne out among the immigrant and assimilated population.

Author : Luisa Del Giudice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in Italian American Folklore written by Luisa Del Giudice and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . An introduction to Studies in Italian American Folklore analyzes the recently controversial figure of Christopher Columbus in Italian folk culture and considers the meaning of his commemoration. The collection includes the first comprehensive bibliography of Italian American and Canadian folklore scholarship.

Author : Catherine Harris Ainsworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian-American Folktales written by Catherine Harris Ainsworth and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Sciorra
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823232654
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Folk written by Joseph Sciorra and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger ingrained assumptions about individuals' beliefs, politics, aesthetics, values, and behaviors that leave little room for nuance and elaboration. This collection of essays explores local knowledge and aesthetic practices, often marked as "folklore," as sources for creativity and meaning in Italian-American lives. As the contributors demonstrate, folklore provides contemporary scholars with occasions for observing and interpreting behaviors and objects as part of lived experiences. Its study provides new ways of understanding how individuals and groups reproduce and contest identities and ideologies through expressive means. Italian Folk offers an opportunity to reexamine and rethink what we know about Italian Americans. The contributors to this unique book discuss historic and contemporary cultural expressions and religious practices from various parts of the United States and Canada to examine how they operate at local, national, and transnational levels. The essays attest to people's ability and willingness to create and reproduce certain cultural modes that connect them to social entities such as the family, the neighborhood, and the amorphous and fleeting communities that emerge in large-scale festivals and now on the Internet. Italian Americans abandon, reproduce, and/or revive various cultural elements in relationship to ever-shifting political, economic, and social conditions. The results are dynamic, hybrid cultural forms such as valtaro accordion music, Sicilian oral poetry, a Columbus Day parade, and witchcraft (stregheria). By taking a closer look and an ethnographic approach to expressive behavior, we see that Italian-American identity is far from being a linear path of assimilation from Italian immigrant to American of Italian descent but is instead fraught with conflict, negotiation, and creative solutions. Together, these essays illustrate how folklore is evoked in the continual process of identity revaluation and reformation.

Author : Luisa Del Giudice
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620035
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans written by Luisa Del Giudice and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to a wide range of interpretations that take oral history and folklore as the premise with a focus on Italian and Italian American culture in disciplines such as history, ethnography, memoir, art, and music.

Author : Elizabeth Mathias
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814321225
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Folktales in America written by Elizabeth Mathias and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers fairy tales told by Clementina Todesco, an Italian immigrant, offers background information about her life in Italy and America, and explains how and when the tales were told

Author : Luisa Del Giudice
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101399
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans written by Luisa Del Giudice and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to a wide range of interpretations that take oral history and folklore as the premise with a focus on Italian and Italian American culture in disciplines such as history, ethnography, memoir, art, and music.

Author : Maria Laurino
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393241297
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Italian-americans written by Maria Laurino and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly researched, beautifully illustrated volume illuminates an important, overlooked part of American history. From extensive archival materials and interviews with well-known Italian Americans, Maria Laurino strips away stereotypes and nostalgia to tell the complicated, centuries-long story of the true Italian-American experience. Looking beyond the familiar Little Italys and stereotypes fostered by The Godfather and The Sopranos, Laurino reveals surprising, fascinating lives: Italian-Americans working on sugar-cane plantations in Louisiana to those who were lynched in New Orleans; the banker who helped rebuild San Francisco after the great earthquake; families interned as “enemy aliens” in World War II. From anarchist radicals to “Rosie the Riveter” to Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo, and Bill de Blasio; from traditional artisans to rebel songsters like Frank Sinatra, Dion, Madonna, and Lady Gaga, this book is both exploration and celebration of the rich legacy of Italian-American life. Readers can discover the history chronologically, chapter by chapter, or serendipitously by exploring the trove of supplemental materials. These include interviews, newspaper clippings, period documents, and photographs that bring the history to life.

Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Italian Americans written by Eric Martone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-12-12 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire Italian American experience—from America's earliest days through the present—is now available in a single volume. This wide-ranging work relates the entire saga of the Italian-American experience from immigration through assimilation to achievement. The book highlights the enormous contributions that Italian Americans—the fourth largest European ethnic group in the United States—have made to the professions, politics, academy, arts, and popular culture of America. Going beyond familiar names and stories, it also captures the essence of everyday life for Italian Americans as they established communities and interacted with other ethnic groups. In this single volume, readers will be able to explore why Italians came to America, where they settled, and how their distinctive identity was formed. A diverse array of entries that highlight the breadth of this experience, as well as the multitude of ways in which Italian Americans have influenced U.S. history and culture, are presented in five thematic sections. Featured primary documents range from a 1493 letter from Christopher Columbus announcing his discovery to excerpts from President Barack Obama's 2011 speech to the National Italian American Foundation. Readers will come away from this book with a broader understanding of and greater appreciation for Italian Americans' contributions to the United States.

Author : Carla Bianco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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