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  • Facts & Stories

    Investigating Afro-Italian Intersections in Popular Music

    John Gennari(June 06, 2017)
    Excerpted from "Flavor and Soul. Naples and Palermo were cultural crossroads where European, African, and Arab music had intermixed for centuries; the migrants who passed through these port cities on their way to the New World participated in the process of intercultural synthesis that produced jazz, the tango, the rumba, and other new song forms and dance styles which in turn traveled from New Orleans, Buenos Aires, Havana and other cities back across the Atlantic.
  • Opinioni

    Quel ramoscello di ulivo segno di speranza

    Gennaro Matino(April 09, 2017)
    La Domenica delle Palme è la più contraddittoria delle celebrazioni liturgiche, ma è anche la più umana perché descrive la realtà di un dramma e racconta il salto dalla fede alla disperazione, dal coraggio alla paura, dall'abbandono in Dio al sentirsi abbandonati da Dio
  • Life & People

    Falling in Love with NYC’s Italian American Culture

    Francine Segan(January 21, 2015)
    Pulitzer Prize- and Oscar-winning John Patrick Shanley is best known for his riveting Broadway play Doubt, which he has since rewritten as a screen-play and a movie, as well as his Hollywood hit Moonstruck, which won three Academy Awards. He is also a theater and film director. And above all, he loves Italy and Italian America.
  • Art & Culture

    John Turturro: The Sound of Naples

    Stanislao G. Pugliese*(June 29, 2011)
    Naples is a tricky subject for any artist. How is one to balance the two competing and contradictory images of the city? “See Naples and die!” was the cultural imperative of the Grand Tour and the age of Romanticism. Chaos, Camorra and trash are the flip image. Naples is a “city painted in sound,” Turturro notes, and, like many poor places in the world, “music is a form of emotional and spiritual transportation . . . a form of prayer.”