Italian Neorealism-Growing up

... and natural music of Italy. It captured "work chants of fishermen and peasants, love songs, courting and wedding tunes, tarantellas (dances of possession), religious and pastoral songs, and lullabies"(3). Italian folk instruments include the accordion, zampogna, which is similar to a bagpipe, flutes, acoustic guitars, violins and fiddles. In 1954, Alan Lomax, an ethnomusicologist, journeyed to Italy to study ... and blues, and jazz influence. For example, there is a new artist, Tiziano Ferro, who samples the American sounds of R.Kelly, a rythmn and blues singer. There is a website, "The ...

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... a period of cultural nationalism and political activism which led to the unification of Italy. Risorgomento's roots lay in the 18th century culture in the works of Ludivico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and priest, Vittorio Alfieri, Piedmontese poet whose writings emphasized unification, and Antonio Genovesi, a political philosopher and economist. Each advocated that the separated areas of Italy should become ... advocated a republic and anticlerical form of government and supported social and economic reform. Secondly there existed the Conservative and Clerical involved in the nati...

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... not buying from Italy and many farmers going under. During this same time period France imposed tax tariffs to help protect their wine industry against Italian imports (Pretelli, 2013). Since 80% of the people of Italy depend on agriculture for their livelihood both of these changes dealt a devastating blow ... toward criminal activity. They also suffered discrimination from other minority groups including the Irish (Iorizzo & Mondello, 1980). There were some hangings of Italian immigrants in the South during the 1890's including one merchant who was thought to have too much power. The It...

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... some different languages can be quite hard to pick up on. One of the languages that I find hard to pick up on is the Italian language. While the Italian language and the English Language both contain 26 alphabet letters Italian does not use every letter as often as Americans ... . In fact so Italians argue that there are only 21 letters in the Italian alphabet. The letters j, k, ... more complicated than in English. For English, the language just has three tenses: past, present, and future. The eight tenses in Italian are: present presente present perfect passato prossimo imperfect im...

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... most pertinent factors regarding early immigration of Italians into America is that most of the Italian immigrants comprised of temporary immigrants who had the sole aim of gaining quick employment to allow them accumulate saving before returning to the Italy. This lot of Italian immigrants was made up of single men aged below thirty-five years (Ganga 1402). Evidently, most of these immigrants ... at their homeland (Carnevale 71). However, this activity did not pick up well; hence, prompting the Italian immigrants to abandon it and opt for the catering jobs. In the catering realm, the I...

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... , but also by plague, war, and death. All of there events shaped Florence during the renaissance and all had different effects on the city. The Italian renaissance had many ideas that had been put together. Eyeglasses, with round lenses, first appeared in Florence around 1352, and were only worn by the well ... educated, the wealthy, and people who read the Italian clergy. Eyeglasses allowed people to see and read well. Marco Polo and his Italian trade family were also key factors in the renaissance. They searched for many Asian spices that the Europeans demanded. ... 1305-1378. He was a...

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... to depict vivid images of religious figures and events, which served to elevate their influence in the community as well. Some examples in which Renaissance ideas are expressed in the Italian art of the period are shown through three famous artists; Giotto, Piero della Francesca, and Michelangelo. These artists developed and constructed various portraits and sculptures that started the beginning of ... the spread of religion in Italian art. Giotto was a Florentine painter who led the way in his use of realism in his works. Although his portraits mirrored reality, one of his more famous ...

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... all-time high after the unification of Italy. The two phenomena have a relationship which show why Italy is the way it is and how Italian identity is now seen in today's world. There were many other factors that concerned Italy after the unification but emigration was the most important ... and the same criminal and civil laws. This then created a fiscal pressure for people of the South as they were not able to keep up with the new ways and support themselves. The economic measures then put an increase on taxes on basic goods which made people of the South ... families lived together in...

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... there are currently 26 million Italian-Americans. According to the US Census Bureau, they are the nation's fifth largest ethnic group. Italian-American's are mainly middle class republicans living in industrial cities primarily in northeastern states. I chose to study this group because my mother's side of the family is one hundred percent Italian. I have grown up with certain Italian customs and traditions, so ... it was interesting for me to research Italian-American families more in depth. In 1850, there were less than 4,000 Italians in America. Between 1876 and 1976 there was ... Th...

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... chaos before the war, with unification debts and the debts of the war plus the human cost led to both social and political problems for the Italian government. The economic, social and political problems led to resistance from the workers and uprising amongst other political parties such as the Fascists and the Socialist ... landowners when they refused to remove peasants who were illegally occupying farmland. As we can see from the figures above this caused concern amongst the Italian people and this is why they flocked to such parties as the socialists as they offered and alternative t...

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