001477813 000__ 06939nam\a22009255i\4500 001477813 001__ 1477813 001477813 003__ DE-B1597 001477813 005__ 20231026034830.0 001477813 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477813 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477813 008__ 230103t20222011nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477813 020__ $$a9780823291908 001477813 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823291908$$2doi 001477813 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)566036 001477813 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306538904 001477813 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477813 0410_ $$aeng 001477813 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477813 072_7 $$aSOC008000$$2bisacsh 001477813 24500 $$aItalian Folk :$$bVernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives /$$ced. by Joseph Sciorra. 001477813 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477813 264_4 $$c©2011 001477813 300__ $$a1 online resource (288 p.) :$$b30 Illustrations, black and white 001477813 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477813 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477813 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477813 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477813 4900_ $$aCritical Studies in Italian America 001477813 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction: Listening with an Accent -- $$t''Sunday Dinner? You Had to Be There!'' -- $$tCuscuszu in Detroit, July 18, 1993 -- $$tThe Italian Immigrant Basement Kitchen in North America -- $$tCreative Responses to the Italian Immigrant Experience in California -- $$tLandscapes of Order, Landscapes of Memory -- $$tLocating Memory -- $$tValtaro Musette -- $$tItalians in Public Memory -- $$tChanging St. Gerard's Clothes -- $$tCursed Flesh -- $$tImagining the Strega -- $$tNotes -- $$tContributors -- $$tIndex 001477813 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477813 520__ $$aSunday 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. 001477813 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477813 546__ $$aIn English. 001477813 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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