Performing Italian in the American Songbook
Mark Rotella In the years after World War II and before the advent of the Beatles, Italian-American performers captivated the American public with a smooth,…
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John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036
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Frank Lentricchia reads from The Italian Actress (State University of New York Press, 2009)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Set in Italy, Frank Lentricchia’s sixth novel features protagonist Jack Del Piero, a has-been, “former avant-garde” filmmaker, once internationally acclaimed for his experimental work but…
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DIGITAL POLAROIDS OF ITALY, 1986 – 2010
Photographs by Franc PalaiaJohn D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Artist’s reception January 20, 2011, 6 pm On view January 20 – April 1, 2011 Click here for full exhibition catalogue. Color digital prints from…
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Paula Butturini reads from Keeping the Feast: One Couple’s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy (Riverhead, 2010)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Journalists Paula Butturini and John Tagliabue met in Italy in 1985 and four years later married in Rome. Less than a month after the wedding,…
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Ironies of Citizenship in Contemporary Italy
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Robert Garot, John Jay College In a world marked by increasing migration and globalization, the political and social rights of citizenship may not always be…
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My American Family (2004), 70 min. Jerzy Sladkowski, dir.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the early twentieth century, members of the Merenda family emigrated to the United States from Paterno Calabro (Cosenza Province), Calabria. Over the decades, the…
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The Neapolitan Instrument Makers of New York
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Jayson Kerr Dobney, Metropolitan Museum of Art For more than a century, Italian Americans in and around New York City have produced a great variety…
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Cricket Cup (2006), 49 min. Diego Liguori and Massimiliano Pacifico, dirs.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036In the late 1970s, Sri Lankan immigrants began coming to Naples, often to find employment as domestic workers. The community is now large and well-established,…
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Joanna Clapps Herman reads from The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America (SUNY Press, 2011)
“I was born in 1944, but raised in the twelfth century.” With that, Joanna Clapps Herman concisely describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing…
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New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036William Mello, Indiana University In the post-World War II era, dockworkers in New York fought an ongoing battle against shipping companies, local police, federal and…
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The Artists of IAVANET: An Exhibition by the Italian-American Visual Artists’ Network
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Exhibition opening Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 6 pm Roundtable discussion Monday, May 9, 2011, 6 pm On view April 12-June 10, 2011…
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Pauline Spatafora reads from Dear Sister: Letters Home to Sicily from Wartime America (Reed & Quill Press, 2009)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY 25 W. 43rd Street, 17th Floor New York NY 10036Following the death of her sister Teresa in 1938, Anna La Camera left Paradiso, a hamlet of Milazzo (Messina province), Sicily, and set sail on…
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