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Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

Diane Vecchio, Furman University Challenging long-held patriarchal assumptions about Italian women’s work in the United States, Diane Vecchio discusses the regional variation of Italian women’s…

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The Tammurriata from Campania: Adaptations and Revivals of a Folk Tradition

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

Jennifer Caputo, Wesleyan University Italy experienced its first folk music revival in the 1970s, when field recordings of the tammurriata or ballo sul tamburo (dance…

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Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel

John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036

Nunzio Pernicone, Drexel University Carlo Tresca was one of the most fascinating figures of the American left, a charismatic Italian anarchist who became a folk-hero…

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