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  • Napoli sotto traccia

    Musica neomelodica e marginalità sociale

    de Jason Pine ...
    Un americano a Spaccanapoli, un antropologo che per oltre dieci anni si mimetizza tra i vicoli e le periferie e s’insinua nell’ambiente della musica neomelodica napoletana: nasce così Napoli sotto traccia, un libro che racconta in presa diretta quel mondo di confine dove la tradizionale arte di arrangiarsi finisce nelle fitte trame della malavita. Dal 1998 al 2011 Jason Pine, newyorkese, ha ... Leer más

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  • The Alchemy of Meth

    A Decomposition

    de Jason Pine ...
    Meth cooks practice late industrial alchemy—transforming base materials, like lithium batteries and camping fuel, into goldMeth alchemists all over the United States tap the occulted potencies of industrial chemical and big pharma products to try to cure the ills of precarious living: underemployment, insecurity, and the feeling of idleness. Meth fires up your attention and makes repetitive tasks ... Leer más

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    The Alchemy of Meth

    A Decomposition

    de Jason Pine ...
    Narrado por Jason Pine ...

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  • The Art of Making Do in Naples

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    “In Naples, there are more singers than there are unemployed people.” These words echo through the neomelodica music scene, a vast undocumented economy animated by wedding singers, pirate TV, and tens of thousands of fans throughout southern Italy and beyond. In a city with chronic unemployment, this setting has attracted hundreds of aspiring singers trying to make a living—or even a fortune. In ... Leer más

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  • Delirious Naples

    A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

    This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to ... Leer más

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  • Leonardo's Lost Princess

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    How an oddly attributed $19,000 picture proved to be a $100 million work by Leonardo da Vinci—a true art-world detective storyIn late 2010, art collector Peter Silverman revealed that a "German, early 19th century" portrait he had bought for $19,000 was, in fact, a previously unknown drawing by Leonardo da Vinci—an exquisite depiction of Bianca Sforza, rendered 500 years ago. In Leonardo's Lost ... Leer más

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    Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture

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