LEADER 03920nam 2200577 450 001 9910164955103321 005 20210125114017.0 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226428468 035 $a(CKB)3710000001063987 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4805187 035 $a(DE-B1597)568167 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226428468 035 $a(OCoLC)1233041328 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001063987 100 $a20170303h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFlavor and soul $eItalian America at its African American edge /$fJohn Gennari 210 1$aChicago, Illinois ;$aLondon, [England] :$cThe University of Chicago Press,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (304 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tINTRODUCTION ?Who Put the Wop in Doo-Wop?? -- $t1 Top Wop -- $t2 Everybody Eats -- $t3 Spike and His Goombahs -- $t4 Sideline Shtick -- $t5 Tutti -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aIn the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African American opera star Thomas Bowers??The Colored Mario??all the way to hip-hop entrepreneur Puff Daddy dubbing himself ?the Black Sinatra,? the affinity between black and Italian cultures runs deep and wide. Once you start looking, you?ll find these connections everywhere. Sinatra croons bel canto over the limousine swing of the Count Basie band. Snoop Dogg deftly tosses off the line ?I?m Lucky Luciano ?bout to sing soprano.? Like the Brooklyn pizzeria and candy store in Spike Lee?s Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, or the basketball sidelines where Italian American coaches Rick Pitino and John Calipari mix it up with their African American players, black/Italian connections are a thing to behold?and to investigate. In Flavor and Soul, John Gennari spotlights this affinity, calling it ?the edge??now smooth, sometimes serrated?between Italian American and African American culture. He argues that the edge is a space of mutual emulation and suspicion, a joyous cultural meeting sometimes darkened by violent collision. Through studies of music and sound, film and media, sports and foodways, Gennari shows how an Afro-Italian sensibility has nourished and vitalized American culture writ large, even as Italian Americans and African Americans have fought each other for urban space, recognition of overlapping histories of suffering and exclusion, and political and personal rispetto. Thus, Flavor and Soul is a cultural contact zone?a piazza where people express deep feelings of joy and pleasure, wariness and distrust, amity and enmity. And it is only at such cultural edges, Gennari argues, that America can come to truly understand its racial and ethnic dynamics. 606 $aItalian American$xEthnic identity 606 $aItalian Americans$xSocial life and customs 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Italian Americans 606 $aPopular culture$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xEthnic relations 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAfrican Americans. 610 $aItalian Americans. 610 $aculture. 610 $afood. 610 $amedia. 610 $amusic. 610 $asport. 615 0$aItalian American$xEthnic identity. 615 0$aItalian Americans$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRelations with Italian Americans. 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a305.85/1073 700 $aGennari$b John$0769767 801 0$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910164955103321 996 $aFlavor and soul$91569700 997 $aUNINA