# Defining Italian-American Identity through Opera

Davide Ceriani discussed his project, "Defining Italian Cultural Identity in American Urban Centers through Opera from Mass Migration to World War II." Ceriani's interdisciplinary, multi-lingual research aims to fill a significant gap in immigration history, which at least in the case of Italian-Americans has focused primarily on socioeconomic improvement and only occasionally on the arts; with few exceptions, opera in particular has been ignored.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2018
- By: Library Of Congress
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692377/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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