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My WorksLevon Helm's Electric Dirt
Many years after the acrimonious breakup of The Band, drummer/singer/mandolinist Levon Helm returns with the best record of his career Personal Choice, Political Act
Not only a loss of faith motivates former Catholics to choose "de-baptism" The Beat Goes On
The pizzica, a southern Italian folk music and dance born out of poverty and oppression, now is a foundation for forward-looking new music An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America
(Faber and Faber/Farrar, Straus, Giroux) "For years, Italian antidefamation groups have denounced "The Sopranos," as well as such films as "The Godfather" and "GoodFellas," for reinforcing stereotypes ... De Stefano elevates this argument beyond a routine diatribe into a thoughtful, thorough analysis tracing the evolution of these vexing pop-culture icons, why their "dangerous allure" remains an enduring attraction, and how they impact perceptions about Italian-Americans." --Boston Globe
There He Goes Again
Sabina Guzzanti, the most outspoken -- and outrageous -- woman in Italy, takes on the Vatican Look for the Union Libel
The Republicans and their corporate allies -- and one former "Sopranos" actor -- spread lies about the Employee Free Choice Act "It's All 'Too Much'"
Labor journalist Sam Pizzigati on American inequality, corporate malfeasance, and Obama's economics A 'Finook' in the Crew: Vito Spatafore, The Sopranos, and the Queering of the Mafia Gangster Genre
David Chase took the mobster genre to places it'd never been, and one of his boldest moves was to introduce a gay gangster to The Sopranos Italian DOCS on the Cuting Edge
On a night in July, a new band transforms a cultural institute into Manhattan's hippest room 21st Century W.O.P.s: Roy Paci, Raiz, and the Cultural Politics of Migration
I presented this paper at "Shake, Rattle: Music, Conflict and Change," the 2008 Experience Music Project (EMP) annual pop conference in Seattle. The paper discusses Roy Paci and Raiz, two cutting-edge Italian artists who, in an Italy being transformed by immigration, are articulating an expansive and inclusive vision of Italian identity and culture. Justice Denied?
With the approval of their leaders and right-wing politicos, Italian police brutally beat and tortured protesters at the 2001 G8 conference in Genoa. Now it appears they will escape justice. “A Burning Hatred for the Ruling Class”: Frank Barbaro’s Radical Life, from the (Brooklyn) Docks to the (New York) Supreme Court
Former New York State Assembly member and State Supreme Court Justice Frank Barbaro, born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York to immigrant parents from Sicily and Calabria, is one of the last living links to a milieu that has been called “the lost world of Italian American radicalism.” Barbaro achieved success in electoral politics without diluting his radicalism. The Hugh Tracey Recordings:
Colonial Dance Bands and Bulawayo Jazz Bulawayo Jazz and Colonial Dance Bands comprise some 50 tracks that Hugh Tracey, the noted English collector of African music, recorded between 1950 and 1952, before liberation movements transfered power from Europeans to Africans. Gore Vidal's America
Australian political scientist Altman brings an outsider's perspective to his critical assessment of an American literary and political giant Nativity Scene
Nativity Scene: From New York's Lower East Side to the jungles of the Amazon and New Guinea -- the amazing life of Tobias Schneebaum Livin' La Vida Loca
Livin' La Vida Loca, from The Nation |
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