Sophia Rossi

Ever since the sixteenth century, Italy has been a major tourist destination with its wonderful countryside and beautiful cities like Rome, Venice and Florence. There is a great love of music throughout the nation and, despite the language barrier, Italy has made a significant and important contribution to both British and American popular music. Many of the major American stars - Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Connie Francis, Bobby Darin, Mario Lanza - came from immigrant families and several pop hits of the 1950s started life as Italian hits. This wonderful collection features 60 tracks by Italian girls singing pop, and even if you do not recognise the Italian titles, you will surely know many of the tunes.

The history of exile literature is as old as the history of writing itself. Despite this vast and varied literary tradition, criticism of exile writing has tended to analyze these works according to a binary logic, where exile either produces creative freedom or it traps the writer in restrictive nostalgia.

Empire is the 2010 albm by Scott Colley. This was released by Italian label C.A.M. Jazz.

100 Unmissable Italian Classics is a various artists compilation album. Released in 2023.