Italian American Review Summer 2014 Volume 4 Number 2

Italian American Review
Summer 2014 Volume 4 Number 2

ARTICLES
Italian Americans in New Orleans Jazz: Bel Canto Meets the Funk, by Bruce Boyd Raeburn

Is Political Moderation Ethnically Based? Italian/American Members of Congress and Congressional Polarization, by Rodrigo Praino

NOTES AND DOCUMENTS
"Submerged" Italian in Tunis: Italian and Its Dialects as Heritage Language, by Alessando Orfano

BOOK REVIEWS
Storia linguistica dell'emigrazione italiana nel mondo (Massimo Vedovelli, editor), by Luciana Fellin

Italy in Australia's Musical Landscape (Linda Barwick and Marcello Sorce Keller, editors), by Incoronata Inserra

Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo (Michael Sciavi), by John D'Emilio

Italy on the Pacific: San Francisco's Italian Americans (Sebastian Fichera), by Tommaso Caiazza

Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, editorts), by Lina Insana

FILM REVIEWS
The Bitter Buddha (Steven Feinartz), by Joanne Ruvoli

The Zen of Bennett (Unjoo Moon), by Nick Rossi

EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Italian Americans of the Mahoning Valley 1890-1924 (Paula Schaeffer, curator), by Melissa E. Marinaro

AUDIO REVIEW
Paese Mio Bello: Historic Italian-American Recordings 1911-1939 (Todd Cambio and Henry Sapoznik, producers), by Anna Harwell Celenza