Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in ItalianAmerican Lives (Critical Studies in Italian America),Used

Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in ItalianAmerican Lives (Critical Studies in Italian America),Used

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Sunday 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 ItalianAmerican 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 peoples ability and willingness to create and reproduce certaincultural modes that connect them to social entities such as the family, the neighborhood, and the amorphous and fleeting communities that emerge in largescale festivals and now on the Internet. Italian Americans abandon, reproduce, and/or revive various cultural elements in relationship to evershifting 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 ItalianAmerican 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.

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