edited by Laura E Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra
contributions by Anthony Julian Tamburri, John Allan Cicala, Simone Cinotto, Teresa Fiore, Incoronata Inserra, Laura E Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra
afterword by Anthony Julian Tamburri
University of Illinois Press, 2017
Paper: 978-0-252-08291-7 | Cloth: 978-0-252-04139-6 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09999-1
Library of Congress Classification E184.I8N49 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 973.0451

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This second volume of <i>New Italian Migrations to the United States</i> explores the evolution of art and cultural expressions created by and about Italian immigrants and their descendants since 1945. The essays range from an Italian-language radio program that broadcast intimate messages from family members in Italy to the role of immigrant cookbook writers in crafting a fashionable Italian food culture. Other works look at how exoticized actresses like Sophia Loren and Pier Angeli helped shape a glamorous Italian style out of images of desperate postwar poverty; overlooked forms of brain drain; the connections between countries old and new in the works of Michigan self-taught artist Silvio Barile; and folk revival performer Alessandra Belloni's reinterpretation of tarantella dance and music for Italian American women. In the afterword, Anthony Julian Tamburri discusses the nomenclature ascribed to Italian American creative writers living in Italy and the United States.

<p>Contributors: John Allan Cicala, Simone Cinotto, Teresa Fiore, Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra, Laura E. Ruberto, Joseph Sciorra, and Anthony Julian Tamburri.