The book "chronicles Italian Americans who have made vital contributions to jazz music. Featuring original, in-depth interviews with jazz artists, it documents

This unique volume explores the relationship between music and crime in its various forms and expressions, bringing together two areas rarely discussed in the s

In the United States, African American and Italian cultures have been intertwined for more than a hundred years. From as early as nineteenth-century African Ame

The entire Italian American experience—from America's earliest days through the present—is now available in a single volume. This wide-ranging work relates

Dottie Dodgion is a jazz drummer who played with the best. A survivor, she lived an entire lifetime before she was seventeen. Undeterred by hardships she defied