Neapolitan Postcards (eBook)

Goffredo Plastino is reader in ethnomusicology at the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University, UK. He has published widely on folk and popular music, field recordings, and jazz.Joseph Sciorra is director for academic and cultural programs at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College (City University of New York). As a folklorist, he has published on religious practices, material culture, and popular music, among other topics.

Foreword: Neapolitan PostcardsMartin StokesChapter 1: Echoes of NaplesGoffredo PlastinoChapter 2: A Mediterranean Triangle: Naples, Smyrna, AthensFranco FabbriChapter 3: The Neapolitan Sound Goes Around: Mechanical Music Instruments, Talking Machines, and Neapolitan Song (1850–1925)Anita PesceChapter 4: The Folk Within: On Some Neapolitan Productions in Early Twentieth-CenturyItalian-American RecordsGiuliana FugazzottoChapter 5: New York City Neapolitan Music from the Calandra Institute’s Mark Pezzano CollectionRosangela Briscese and Joseph SciorraChapter 6: You Can Go Home Again, and Again: Santa Lucia Luntana, the FilmGiorgio BertelliniChapter 7: Diasporic Musings on Veracity and Uncertainties of “Core ’ngrato”Joseph SciorraChapter 8: Napoli in Buenos Aires: From Canzonetta to Tango CanciónAna CaraChapter 9: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Transatlantic Stereotypes 1880s–1950sPaolo PratoChapter 10: Blues in the Bay: The Bluesology of James Senese and RaizAlessandro Buffa and Iain ChambersAfterword:Neapolitan Postcards and Metaphorical Materiality: Ontologies of IntimacyPhilip V. Bohlman