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The following is a selection from 20 years of my articles, essays, and reviews

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21st Century W.O.P.s: Roy Paci, Raiz, and the Cultural Politics of Migration

I presented this paper at the 2008 Experience Music Project Pop Conference in Seattle.

"Sex, Race and Ethnicity in Italian American Cinema."

 I contributed this essay to "Quei Bravi Ragazzi: Il Cinema Italoamericano Contemporaneo," edited by Giuliana Muscio and Giovanni Spagnoletti (Marsilio Editori, Venice). The book, comprising contributions by Italian and Italian American critics, was published on the occasion of the 43rd Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema (International Festival of New Cinema) held in Pesaro, Italy, 2007. The Pesaro event is Italy's second largest film festival, after Venice's.

A 'Finook' in the Crew: Vito Spatafore, The Sopranos, and the Queering of the Mafia Genre
I presented this paper in May 2008 at "The Sopranos: A Wake," a four-day conference that brought scholars and journalists from the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France and Italy to NYC to analyze, criticize and celebrate David Chase's HBO series.

The Nation quotes me on "The Sopranos"

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Music Reviews

Afro-Cuban Music ("Salsa"):

Latin Music Reviews

Motown:

Where Did Our Love Go?

Reviews of Contemporary Italian Music:

Gennaro "Raiz" Della Volpe, "WOP"

African Music:

The Hugh Tracey Recordings

Golden Afrique

 

Gay History & Politics

Rome's Gay Village Festival:

"It Takes a Village"

My Report in The Nation of the 2000 World Pride Controversy in Rome:

 "A Day for Building Gay Rome"

The Pleasure Principle

"The Homosexual Exception"

Movie Review: Before Stonewall

 Before Stonewall

Book Review: Gay Histories

Gay Histories

Book Review: HomoEconomics

Class Action

Essay on Tobias Schneebaum

Nativity Scene

My Essay "UnGoodfellas," from The Nation:

"UnGoodfellas": Italian Americans and the Mob Image

 A Visit to Selinunte, Sicily:

Selinunte: When Old and New Worlds Collide

 Colombian author Jaime Manrique:

Living La Vida Loca

 Review: HIV as "Retro"Virus:

Eric Rofes' "Dry Bones Breathe"