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What American Tourists Need To Know Before Ever Stepping Foot In An Italian Bar
Americans on an Italian vacation are likely to encounter cultural distinctions, so having a drink at a bar may look slightly ...
Deportees died in a plane crash. Woody Guthrie wrote a song about it.
The story of the Los Gatos flight that took off 77 years ago and exploded became a folk song that remains part of the canon of American protest music.
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A Song on Porcelain
Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...
From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture
For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...
Wess Johnson: The American vocalist who brought funk and soul to Italy
Exploring the origin story of Wess Johnson, the American funk and soul bassist and singer who traded North Carolina for Rome ...
Did Bob Dylan Follow Suze Rotolo to Italy? ‘A Complete Unknown's' Local Release Prompts Reports That He Visited Perugia to Find Her
The Italian release of James Mangold's Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" is prompting local media to claim that, unlike ...
How the Family From Everyone’s Favorite Musical Actually Came to America
They escaped successfully from Austria in 1938, and they lived the rest of their lives in the U.S. Missing from the movie was ...