Studies in Italian American Folklore

Studies in Italian American Folklore
Title Studies in Italian American Folklore PDF eBook
Author Luisa Del Giudice
Publisher
Pages 304
Release 1993
Genre History
ISBN

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The interplay of these variables, in tension with American and Canadian society, contextualizes New World traditions - from the archvillas of Toronto, Canada, to the festival foods of Italians in Indiana, the sung villanella of Calabrians in New York, cultural stereotypes of Italians in Northern California, the "invention" of Italy by 1920s Philadelphians, and the multiple meanings of a grotto shrine on Staten Island. These essays will set a new standard for Italian American folklore scholarship.

Italian-American Folklore

Italian-American Folklore
Title Italian-American Folklore PDF eBook
Author Frances M. Malpezzi
Publisher
Pages 312
Release 1992
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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Every passage included is important and attests to the richness of the subject. -- Booklist Most interesting... and a major contribution to the understanding of Italian character in America. -- Gay Talese

Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans

Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans
Title Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans PDF eBook
Author Luisa Del Giudice
Publisher Springer
Pages 272
Release 2009-11-09
Genre History
ISBN 0230101399

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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.

Italian Folktales in America

Italian Folktales in America
Title Italian Folktales in America PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Mathias
Publisher Wayne State University Press
Pages 356
Release 1988
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9780814321225

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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

Italian and Italian-American Folklore Collections

Italian and Italian-American Folklore Collections
Title Italian and Italian-American Folklore Collections PDF eBook
Author Wayne State University. Folklore Archive
Publisher
Pages 40
Release 1980
Genre Folklore
ISBN

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Italian and Italian-American Folklore

Italian and Italian-American Folklore
Title Italian and Italian-American Folklore PDF eBook
Author Carla Bianco
Publisher
Pages 74
Release 1970
Genre Folklore
ISBN

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Italian Folk

Italian Folk
Title Italian Folk PDF eBook
Author Joseph Sciorra
Publisher Fordham Univ Press
Pages 270
Release 2011
Genre History
ISBN 0823232654

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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.