Neapolitan postcards : the canzone napoletana as transnational subject / edited by Goffredo Plastino and Joseph Sciorra.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Plastino, Goffredo, editor.

Sciorra, Joseph, editor.

Series:

Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities.

Europea : ethnomusicologies and modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Songs, Neapolitan--History and criticism.

Songs, Neapolitan.

Songs, Neapolitan--United States--History and criticism.

Songs, Neapolitan--Greece--History and criticism.

Songs, Neapolitan--Argentina--History and criticism.

Music and transnationalism.

Dissemination of music.

Italian Americans--New York (State)--New York--Music--History and criticism.

Italian Americans.

Music.

New York (State)--New York.

Argentina.

Greece.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 242 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]

Summary:

Neapolitan Postcards gathers a diverse group of international scholars to investigate unexplored transnational aspects of the intimate yet globally popular canzone napoletana. Performed and beloved worldwide in almost every language, the style had hits, such as "Funiculí funiculá" (1880) and "'O sole mio" (1898), that sold millions of copies. These hits fueled the tradition's spread across the world over the course of the twentieth century with the eventual popularity of covers by singers and musicians of all music genres and styles, from popular music to opera and jazz. This book is the first scholarly work that considers the specific complexities of the international Neapolitan Song scenes through case studies from Argentina, England, Greece, and the United States, employing analyses of compositions, iconographical sources, international films, mechanical musical instruments, performances, and recordings devoted to the canzone napoletana. Book jacket.

Contents:

Echoes of Naples / Goffredo Plastino

A Mediterranean triangle : Naples, Smyrna, Athens / Franco Fabbri

The Neapolitan sound goes around : mechanical music instruments, talking machines, and Neapolitan song (1850-1925) / Anita Pesce

The folk within : on some Neapolitan productions in early twentieth-century Italian-American records / Giuliana Fugazzotto

New York City Neapolitan music from the Calandra Institute's Mark Pezzano Collection / Rosangela Briscese and Joseph Sciorra

You can go home again and again : Santa Lucia Luntana, the film / Giorgio Bertellini

Diasporic musings on veracity and uncertainties of "Core 'ngrato" / Joseph Sciorra

Napoli in Buenos Aires : from canzonetta to tango canción / Ana Cara

The good, the bad, and the ugly : transatlantic stereotypes 1880s-1950s / Paolo Prato

Blues in the bay : the bluesology of James Senese and Raiz / Alessandro Buffa and Iain Chambers

Afterword : Neapolitan postcards and metaphorical materiality : ontologies of intimacy / Philip V. Bohlman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810881594

0810881594

OCLC:

936549254