Italian Folk: Vernacular Culture in Italian-American Lives

Introduction : Listening With An Accent / Joseph Sciorra -- Sunday Dinner? You Had To Be There! The Social Significance Of Food In Italian Harlem, 1920-40 / Simone Cinotto -- Cuscuszu In Detroit, July 18, 1993 : Memory, Conflict, And Bella Figura During A Sicilian-american Meal / John Allan Cicala -- The Italian Immigrant Basement Kitchen In North America / Lara Pascali -- Creative Responses To The Italian Immigrant Experience In California : Baldassare Forestiere's Underground Gardens And Simon Rodia's Watts Towers / Kenneth Scambray -- Landscapes Of Order, Landscapes Of Memory : Italian-american Residential Landscapes Of The New York Metropolitan Region / Joseph J. Inguanti -- Locating Memory : Longing, Place, And Autobiography In Vincenzo Ancona's Sicilian Poetry / Joseph Sciorra -- Valtaro Musette : Cross-cultural Musical Performance And Repertoire Among Northern Italians In New York / Marion S. Jacobson -- Italians In Public Memory : Pageantry, Power, And Imagining In The Italian American In Reading, Pennsylvania / Joan L. Saverino -- Changing St. Gerard's Clothes : An Exercise In Italian-american Catholic Devotion And Material Culture / Peter Savastano -- Cursed Flesh : Faith Healers, Black Magic And (re-membering) Death In A Central Italian Town / Luisa Del Giudice -- Imagining The Strega : Folklore Reclamation And The Construction Of Italian-american Witchcraft / Sabina Magliocco. Edited By Joseph Sciorra. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 215-246) And Index.