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The First World War
This volume is the result of an international conference held at Sapienza University of Rome in June 2014, which brought together scholars from different countries to re-analyse and re-interpret the events of the First World War, one hundred years after a young Bosnian Serb student from the “Mlada Bosna,” Gavrilo Princip, “lit the fuse” and ignited the conflict which was to forever change the world. The Great War – initially on a European and then on a world scale – demonstrated the fragility of the international system of the European balance of powers, and determined the dissolution of the great multinational empires and the need to redraw the map of Europe according to the pri...
Italian Crime Fiction
Italian Crime Fiction is the first study in the English language to focus specifically on Italian detective and noir fiction from the 1930s to the present. The eight chapters include studies on some of the founding fathers of the Italian tradition, and mainstream writers. The volume has a particular focus on the new generation of crime writers.
Mediterranean Mosaic
First published in 2003. The Mediterranean region, which includes Turkey, the Middle East, and North Africa, along with Italy, Greece, Spain and other European countries, encompasses a plethora of diverse but also interconnected cultures. The musical styles are just as diverse. Mediterranean Mosaic weaves together issues of music contemporary geopolitics and identity struggles. Acknowledging the region's historical legacy, it examines the ebb and flow of traditional musics within the region as well as outside influences on these traditions. Topics covered include: Klapa singing and Cha Wave from Croatia, the pop group Alibina, Pop-Rai from Algeria, and jazz in the Mediterranean. Also includes 20 musical examples.
Olympic Event Organization
Olympic Event Organization is the first text to address a number of important questions in contemporary mega-event management: Which organizations are involved in the Olympic Movement and in what capacity? What are the interorganizational flows of authority and finance between them? How is work grouped, in what unit sizes, how specialized and formalized are work processes? How complex, dynamic, diversified, or friendly is their environment? What are the power issues and how do the technological processes affect these organizations? How do the OCOGs evolve in their life cycle, what pressures shape their structures and management processes and how is work co-ordinated? The examination of the O...
L'ultimo segreto
1852. Giulia è una donna forte e sola: vive ritirata a Marsiglia dove la credono una giovane vedova. In realtà è molto altro: la sua è una vita fatta di rischi, di pericoli, di segreti. E con l’arrivo di Cesare, cambia tutto. Lui è l’uomo che ha sposato e che non vede da anni, l’uomo che ha amato e che ora ritrova. Entrambi tenaci e coraggiosi, testardi e determinati, partiranno per un viaggio pieno di insidie. Un nuova missione li attende, che li porterà non solo a essere nuovamente vicini, ma anche alla scoperta del loro passato e di ciò che li ha allontanati. L’ultimo segreto intreccia la storia con l’amore, regalandoci un libro ricco di avventura ed emozioni.
The Voice of the Rural
A moving portrait of the contemporary experiences of migrant Moroccan men. Umbria is known to most Americans for its picturesque rolling hills and medieval villages, but to the many migrant Moroccan men who travel there, Umbria is better known for the tobacco fields, construction sites, small industries, and the outdoor weekly markets where they work. Marginalized and far from their homes, these men turn to Moroccan traditions of music and poetry that evoke the countryside they have left— l-‘arubiya, or the rural. In this book, Alessandra Ciucci takes us inside the lives of Moroccan workers, unpacking the way they share a particular musical style of the rural to create a sense of home an...
Paganini
"Our inherited image of Nicolo Paganini as a 'demonic violinist' has never been analysed in depth. What really made him 'demonic'? In fact, the many perceptions of Paganini as demonic - Faust, magician, devil, rake/libertine, Napoleon - were inter-related but not equivalent. This book investigates the legend of Paganini: separating fact from fiction, it explains how the legendary violinist challenged the very notion of what it meant to be a musician. An understanding of his violin techniques and musical ethos goes some way towards meeting this aim, beyond which an exploration of the wider cultural context is also presented. This book considers Paganini's performance innovations in the light ...
Beyond States and Markets
Seeking to extend our understanding of the contemporary global political economy, this book provides an important and original introduction to the current theoretical debates about social reproduction and argues for the necessity of linking social reproduction to specific contexts of power and production. It illustrates the analytic value of the concept of social reproduction through a series of case studies that examine the implications of how labor power is reproduced and how lives outside of work are lived. The issues examined in countries including the Ukraine, Chile, Spain, Nepal, India and Indonesia, consist of: Human trafficking and sex work Women and work Migration, labor and gender ...
Il colore del vento
Un saggio coinvolgente e appassionato sulla scrittura poetica di De André, analizzata con i metodi della critica letteraria, pienamente adeguati all'interpretazione di testi di autentica poesia come sono le canzoni di Faber. Addentrarsi nell'officina segreta di De André consente di indagare le sue modalità creative e delineare una poetica che sarà costante, dalle prime alle ultime canzoni, sulla trasfigurazione della realtà operata dalla memoria e dall'emozione, affidata al linguaggio altro della poesia, linguaggio scelto e valorizzato accuratamente da Fabrizio, che è un innamorato della parola, del suo valore autonomo, del suo colore vocalico-figurativo, linguistico- lessicale, fonico...
Creative Urbanity
Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research in Genoa, Italy, Creative Urbanity argues for an understanding of contemporary urban life that refuses scholarly condemnation of urban lifestyles and consumption and casts a fresh light on an oft-neglected social group—the middle class.
