Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans
- ISBN-10
- 0230620035
- ISBN-13
- 9780230620032
- Category
- America
- Pages
- 269
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- Luisa Del Giudice
Description
This book introduces readers to a wide range of interpretations that take oral history and folklore as the premise with a focus on Italian and Italian American culture in disciplines such as history, ethnography, memoir, art, and music.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Italian American Experience in New Haven: Images and Oral Histories
By Anthony V. RiccioA compelling social history of a vibrant immigrant community, told through interviews and photographs.
-
Farms, Factories, and Families: Italian American Women of Connecticut
By Anthony V. RiccioThis volume is filled with thoughtful reflections ranging from Mussolini to issues of social justice.
-
Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives
By Joseph SciorraTogether, these essays illustrate how folklore is evoked in the continual process of identity revaluation and reformation.
-
Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative
By Fred L. GardapheIn the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. Gardaphé presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. Examining works from the...
-
Italian American Experience in New Haven, The: Images and Oral Histories
By Anthony V. RiccioBut Italian Americans are interested in learning about their heritage. ... Because the Italian American oral tradition—that body of fables, proverbs, and life experience stories by which a family knows its past—is rarely recorded but ...
-
The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History
By Alessandro PortelliBy recovering the value of the story-telling experience, Portelli’s work makes delightful reading for the specialist and non-specialist alike.
-
Oral Tradition as History
By Jan M. VansinaThe result is an essentially new work, indispensable to all students and scholars of history, anthropology, folklore, and ethno-history who are concerned with the transmission and potential uses of oral material. “Those embarking on the ...
-
Doing Oral History
By Donald A. RitchieOral History and Racial and Ethnic Studies Barnett, Teresa, and Chon A. Noriega. Oral History and Communities of Color. ... Kohn, Rita, W. Lynwood Montell, and Michelle Mannering, eds. Always a People: Oral Histories of Contemporary ...
-
Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture
By Kathleen McCormick, Edvige GiuntaThis volume aims to foster a deeper and more complex appreciation for the importance of Italian American texts in the study of American culture.
-
Song of Brooklyn: An Oral History of America's Favorite Borough
By Marc EliotWith this surprising and inspiring renaissance in full swing, the story of Brooklyn is one of the great and still ongoing chapters of the American urban experience, and Song of Brooklyn sings that tune in pitch-perfect key.