PUBLICATIONS

Publications in Folklore

Imagined States: National Identity, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures, ed. by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter, Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001.

“Paesi di Cuccagna and other Gastronomic Utopias,” in Imagined States: National Identity, Utopia, and Longing in Oral Cultures, ed. by Luisa Del Giudice and Gerald Porter, Logan: Utah State University Press, 2001: 11-63.

“Healing the Spider's Bite: `Ballad Therapy’ and Tarantismo,” in Thomas A. McKean Ed., The Flowering Thorn (International Ballad Studies, A Project of the Kommission für Volksdichtung and the Elphinstone Institute), Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2003: 23-33.

Introduction to: Italian Treasury: Puglia, Rounder Records (Alan Lomax Collection), 2003.

“Pasta” (46-52) and “Slow Food”(288-89), in Encyclopedia of Food, Vol. 3, ed. by Solomon H. Katz, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Thomson Gale, 2003.

"Cursed Flesh: Faith Healers, Black Magic, and Death in a Central Italian Town," in Italian American Review, John Calandra Institute, SUNY, New York, Vol. 8, number 2, 2001: 45-56.

“`Wine Makes Good Blood’: Wine Culture Among Toronto Italians,” in Ethnologies, 2001, Vol. 23, number 1, 1-27.

Introduction (and translation into English): Canto d'amore: canti, suoni, voci nella Grecia salentina (`Love Song: Songs, Sounds, and Voices from the Griko-speaking Area of the Salento’), Lecce: Edizioni Aramirè and UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology, 2000.

“Italian American Folklore, Folklife” (237-245) and “Italian American Food and Foodways” (245-248), in S. LaGumina, F. Cavaioli, S. Primeggia, J. Varacalli, eds., The Italian American Experience: An Encyclopedia, New York: Garland, 2000.

Preface (and translation into English): Bonasera a quista casa: Antonio Aloisi, Antonio Bandello “Gli Ucci” Pizziche, stornelli, canti salentini, Lecce: Edizioni Aramirè, 1999.

“Costantino Nigra: Le chant populaire, la politique régionaliste et nationale” in Fanch Postic, ed., La Bretagne et la découverte de la littérature orale en Europe, Brest, 1999.

"Giulio Cesare Croce," "Paese di Cuccagna," in Encyclopedia of Folklore and Literature, Mary Ellen Brown, Bruce Rosenberg, eds., Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 1998: 148-50; 487-89.

Introduction (and translation into English): Bonasera a quista casa: Antonio Aloisi, Antonio Bandello ("Gli Ucci"): Pizziche, stornelli, canti salentini, Lecce: Edizioni Aramirè, 1999.

"The International Ballad Comission (SIEF): 1985 - 1997," in ed. Marjetka Golez, Ljudske balade med izrocilom in sodobnostjo/Ballads Between Tradition and Modern Times, Proceedings of the 27th International Ballad Conference, IBC (International Ballad Commission, SIEF), Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia (July 13-19, 1997), Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1998:37-44.

"Tomie de Paola and the Writing/Illustrating of Italian Folk Culture," in Italian Americana, winter 1997: 22-30.

Cecilia: Testi e contesti di un canto narrativo tradizionale, Brescia: Grafo, 1995. (revised and translated Ph.D. dissertation (UCLA, 1987): "Cecilia (Nigra 3): A Traditional Narrative Ballad in Socio-Literary context").

"Mythic Space," Italian Journeys Humanities Guide, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995.

"Oral Theory and the Northern Italian Ballad Tradition: An Ethnographic Approach to the Ballad Formula," in Mary Ellen Brown, ed, Journal of Folklore Research (special ballad issue), 31 (1994) 97-126.

"Italian Traditional Song in Toronto: From Autobiography to Advocacy," in Journal of Canadian Studies, ed. Pauline Greenhill, Gary Butler (special issue on folklore), 29 (Spring 1994) 74-89.

"The `Archvilla': An Italian Canadian Architectural Archetype," in Luisa Del Giudice, ed., Studies in Italian American Folklore, Logan: Utah University Press, 1993:53-105. Chosen official publication of the American Folklore Society.

"Bibliography of Italian American and Canadian Folklore," in L. Del Giudice, ed., Studies in Italian American Folklore (245-69).

"Il canto popolare italiano," in Alessandro Falassi, ed., Tradizioni Italiane: Codici, Percorsi e Linguaggi, Siena: Università per Stranieri, 1992:238-51.

"Ubi saltatio ibi diabolus: Eros and Dance in the Italian Ballad and Dance Song," in Leander Petzoldt, Stefaan Top, edd., Dona Folcloristica: Festschrift für Lutz Röhrich), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1990:57-67.

"The Sicilian Oral and Literary Traditions," preface to Vincenzo Ancona, Malidittu la lingua/Damned Language, New York: Legas, l990:16-23.

Italian Traditional Song (2 audio cassettes + 135 pp. booklet), for the Italian Heritage Culture Foundation and the Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles, 1989, 2nd revised edition, 1995.

Preliminary Survey of Italian Folklife in Los Angeles, for the Folk and Traditional Arts Program, Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, 1990 (70 pp.).

"Il canto narrativo al Brallo," in Pavia e il suo territorio, (musical transcriptions by Linda Levin) publications of the Folklife Office of the Regione Lombardia, Vol. 14, Milano: Silvana, l990, pp. 165-214; prepublished as monograph, Il canto narrativo al Brallo (Amministrazione Provinciale di Pavia), Varzi: Guardamagna, 1989.

Canto narrativo al Brallo (lp), Ricerche etnomusicologiche, Archivio Sonoro 7, Milan: Albatros, 1990.

"Ninna-nanna-nonsense? Fears, dreams, and falling in the Italian lullaby," Oral Tradition, 1988 (3): 270-86; also in La ricerca folclorica (in Italian), Brescia: Grafo, Vol. 22 (Europa zingara, ed. by Leonardo Piasere), 1991:105-14.

"Erotic Metaphor in the Nigra Ballads" in ARV: Scandinavian Yearbook of Folklore 1989, Stockholm, Almquist & Wiksell, 1989:17-41.

"Computer applications to the analysis of ballad variants," in Conrad Laforte (ed.), Ballades et chansons folkloriques, Actes de la l8e session de la Commission pour l'étude de la poesie de tradition orale (Kommission für Volksdichtung) de la S.I.E.F. (Société internationale d'ethnologie et de folklore), Québec: CELAT, 1989:173-87.

"Ballad Theater: Carnival dramatization of narrative ballads in Brallo (Pavia): Cecilia, Ratto al ballo, Isabella, Fernanda e Bortolino," in Walter Puchner, ed., Tod und Jenseits im Europäischen Volkslied, Ioannina, 1986:337-60.

Reviews in: Western Folklore, Dance Research Journal, Italian Americana, Journal of American Folklore, Merveilles et contes/Marvels and Tales

Forthcoming Publications in Folklore:

"Interpreting Treasure: Oral Tradition, Archaeology and Horace’s Villa," in Bernard Frischer, Monica De Simone, Jane Crawford (editors), New Studies of Horace’s Villa (Licenza, Italy), 1997-2001, Monumenta Series, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, forthcoming 2005

Performing Ecstasies: Music, Dance, and Ritual in the Mediterranean, edited by Luisa Del Giudice and Nancy Van Deusen, Claremont Cultural Studies, Nancy Van Deusen, General Editor, Ottawa: Institute for Medieval Music, 2004.

Feeding The Poor: St. Joseph's Tables in Los Angeles.

• Popular Italian Literature: from Boccaccio to Pasolini (UC San Diego)
• La Canzone Tradizionale Italiana (UC San Diego)
• Folk Traditions in Italian Literature (UCLA)
• A Singable Feast: Food and Song in Traditional Italian Culture (UCLA)
• The Other Italy: Italian Folk Culture (UCLA)
• Introduction to American Folklore (UCLA)
• Other Italies: Italian Regional and Folk Cultures (UCLA)
• Feast and Fast: Food in Italian Folk Rituals (American Inst. of Wine and Food)
• Italian Culture in Los Angeles: Collecting and Connecting (Historic Italian Hall Foundation/El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument)
  

    APPOINTMENTS

• Editorial board, Slovene Studies (Journal of the Society for Slovene Studies), 2004-
• The Canterbury Westwood Foundation (The Episcopal/Anglican Chaplaincy serving UCLA): elected to board 2003-2006.
• Editorial board, Western Folklore, 2003-
• Editorial board (comité scientifique), Rabaska: revue d’ethnologie de l’Amérique française (Société québecoise d’ethnologie), 2003-
• Vestry, St. Alban’s Episcopal Church (elected for 3-year term: 2001-04); Programs Committee Chair (2002-4)
• Advisory Board for Encyclopedia: Folk Heroes, ed. Graham Seal, 2001.
• Associate of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2001-)
• Elected to the Executive of the Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et Folklore (SIEF); term 2001-2005.
• Founder of the IOHI (2000); (formerly Italian Oral History Project, 1994-2000)
• First Vice-President, Komission für Volksdichtung (1995-2000); President (2000-2005)
• Convenor, Italian Section, American Folklore Society (1988-1995)
• Italian Hall Museum Advisory Board (El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument) 1994-1998
• National Advisory Board, Center for the Study of Art and Culture, (Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles)
• Editorial Board, Carte Italiane l98l-86 (Editor in chief l985-86)
• Editorial Advisory Board, Italian Americana (journal of the Italian American Historical Association) (l990-)
• Editor of Newsletter, Italian Section, American Folklore Society (1988-1992)

  Born July 30, 1956 in Terracina (Latina), Italy

   GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

  CONFERENCE and FESTIVAL ORGANIZATION

Speaking Memory: Oral History, Oral Culture and Italians in America: (AIHA in LA – 2005), 38th annual conference of the American Italian Historical Association, Los Angeles, November 3-6, 2005.

Italian Los Angeles: Celebrating Italian Life, Local History, and the Arts in Southern California, Los Angeles, multi-media festival, October 1-30, 2005.

In Vino Sanitas: Health, Certification and Marketing of Organic Wines (International Symposium), Park Hyatt Hotel, Los Angeles, November 15-16, 2001.

Italian Jews: Memory, Music and Celebration, Los Angeles (UCLA, Skirball Center, Ist. It. di Cultura), October 24-November 5, 2001.

Performing Ecstasies: Dance, Music, and Ritual in the Mediterranean (International Symposium), UCLA, 2000.

Ballads and Boundaries: Narrative Singing in an Intercultural Context, 23rd international conference of the Kommission für Volksdichtung (Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore S.I.E.F.), UCLA, June 21-24, l993.

Italian panels for the Centenary of the American Folklore Society meeting, Philadelphia, and special Italian American symposium at the Fleisher Art Memorial as part of the Philadelphia Folklore Project, October l989.

Petrarch and Petrarchism in Europe, UCLA l983.

Literature in the Nuclear Age, UCLA, 1982.

American Association of University Professors of Italian conference, UCLA l98l.

  EXHIBITS

Essential Salento: Festival of Salentine Culture (curator: multimedia festival), UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles, October 18-23, 1998

St. Joseph's Day Table, co-curated with Virginia Buscemi Carlson, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, March 18-19, 1998.

Ballads and Boundaries: Narrative Singing in an Intercultural Context, Exhibits in honor of D.K. Wilgus, curated by L. Del Giudice and Norm Cohen