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Calandra Institute Seminar Series/Jason Pine The Aesthetics of Economic Performance:
Music-Making & The Neapolitan Neomelodici
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Queens College/CUNY
Seminar Series in Italian American Studies 2001-2002
presents Jason Pine The Aesthetics of Economic Performance: Music-Making and the Neapolitan Neomelodici
Jason Pine is a Ph.D candidate in Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin who is currently conducting his dissertation research on the century-old sceneggiata genre and its contemporary resurgence through the voices of the immensely popular Neapolitan neomelodici singers. Through the use of recordings, videos, and narrative, he will trace the peculiar relationships among melodrama, the shadow economy, and Italy’s "Southern Question" that have made the neomelodico genre an explosively controversial musical-economic phenomenon in Naples today.
Recordings will be played and videos will be shown.
Thursday, September 13, 2001 6:30 PM
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
25 West 43rd Street, 18th floor between 5th & 6th Avenues
Manhattan
Refreshments are served at 6:00 PM.
Lectures begin at 6:30 PM For further information call (212) 642-2094 or see our Web site www.qc.edu/calandra
SEATING IS LIMITED
The Calandra Institute is a university institute under the aegis of Queens College.
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College (CUNY)
25 West 43rd Street, 18th floor
New York, New York 10036
tel. (212) 642-2035 fax (212) 642-2030 www.qc.edu/calandra

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