The second volume of Italiamerica, a collaboration with my friend, Professor Emanuela Scarpellini at the University of Milan, has now been published in Milan by Il Saggiatore in concert with the Fondazione Arnoldo Mondadori. The volume contains a range of innovative essays on everything from the history of baseball in Italy (by Sergio Giuntini) to Hollywood’s stagings of Italian tourist

destinations (Robert Gordon) to the Italian reception of American pop music (Irene Piazzoni) to US punk rock on the Italian scene (Nicola del Corno and Sergio Maramotti) to the americanization of Italian public television (Simone Tobia).