Alessandro Portelli | Academic Influence

Why Is Alessandro Portelli Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Alessandro Portelli is an Italian scholar of American literature and culture, oral historian, writer for the daily newspaper il manifesto, and musicologist. He is a professor of Anglo-American literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza. In the United States he is best known for his oral history work, which has compared workers' accounts of industrial conflicts in Harlan County, Kentucky, and Terni, Italy. In 2014–15, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, co-teaching a course on Bruce Springsteen's America.

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Alessandro Portelli's Published Works

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Published Works

The death of Luigi Trastulli and other stories : form and meaning in oral history (1991) (769)
What Makes Oral History Different (2009) (469)
The Peculiarities of Oral History (1981) (312)
ORAL HISTORY AS GENRE (2002) (79)
The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome (2003) (57)
Oral history off the record : toward an ethnography of practice (2013) (50)
Living Voices: The Oral History Interview as Dialogue and Experience (2018) (34)
They Say in Harlan County: An Oral History (2010) (31)
Oral Testimony, the Law and the Making of History: the ‘April 7’ Murder Trial (1985) (28)
A Dialogical Relationship. An Approach to Oral History (1985) (26)
The text and the voice : writing, speaking, and democracy in American literature (1994) (24)
History-Telling and Time: An Example from Kentucky (1992) (21)
FINGERTIPS STAINED WITH INK (2006) (16)
The Massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine. History, Myth, Ritual, and Symbol (2005) (13)
Politics of Memory (2003) (13)
The rich and the poor in the culture of football (1990) (10)
Fingertips stained with ink: notes on new 'migrant writing' in Italy (2010) (9)
The Problem of the Color Blind: Notes on the Discourse on Race in Italy (2003) (8)
História Oral e Poder (2010) (7)
Biography of an Industrial Town (2017) (4)
Myth and Morality in the History of the Italian Resistance: the Hero of Palidoro (2012) (4)
The text and the voice (1994) (4)
Everybody's Healing Novel: Native Son and Its Contemporary Critical Context (1997) (3)
The Apple and the Olive Tree (2017) (2)
Social change and new modes of expression : the United States, 1910-1930 (1986) (1)
4. "This Mill Won't Run No More": Oral History and Deindustrialization (2019) (1)
America and the Underground (2010) (1)
Oral memoir and the Shoah (2013) (1)
The Best Trash-Can Wiper in Town: The Life and Times of Valtero Peppoloni, Worker (1988) (1)
Biography of an Industrial Town: Terni, Italy, 1831–2014 (2017) (1)
Hard Rain (2022) (1)
Response to Commentaries (2005) (1)
Twenty Years: Fascism and Its Discontents (2003) (0)
Bruce Springsteen: workin class hero? (1988) (0)
Pistol Packiri Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong. By Shelly Romalis. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999. xiv, 239 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-252-02421-4. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-252-06728-2.) (2000) (0)
How Steel Was Tempered: The Making of a Working Class (2017) (0)
A Tale of Two Cities: Death, Survival, and Powerlessness in the Neo-Liberal Age (2017) (0)
Acts of War (2003) (0)
Introduction: Speaking, Writing, and Remembering (2017) (0)
Red Is the Color: The Gramsci Brigade and the Resistance (2017) (0)
Coordination of personnel. (1972) (0)
Epilogue: Working-class Sublime (2017) (0)
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: Economic Boom and Industrial Crisis (2017) (0)
Rebels: Socialists, Anarchists, and the Subversive Tradition (2017) (0)
8. Radio Clandestina: from oral history to the theatre (2010) (0)
Reviewer Index (2017) (0)
A Strange Grief: Death, Mourning, and Survival in Rome (2003) (0)
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Surviving and Resisting Fascism (2017) (0)
Apocalypse Now: War, Hunger, and Mass Destruction (2017) (0)
We Are Not Going Back: Migrant Music as the New Folk Music of Italy (2021) (0)
‘Guests’: Three migrant voices in Italy (2015) (0)
Between Rome, Harlem, and Harlan (2020) (0)
The Red and the Black: Rebels, Patriots, and Outlaws (2017) (0)
Case Study: Rome's House of Memory and History: The Politics of Memory and Public Institutions (2010) (0)
Staying Alive: The Rise of Alternative Cultures (2017) (0)
The Workers and the World: Terni Steel in the Age of Globalization (2017) (0)
David and Goliath: The Town, the Factory, and the Strike (2017) (0)
Coordination of personnel. (1971) (0)
Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education (2006) (0)
The Empire Strikes Back: The Town, the Factory, the Strike—Reprise (2017) (0)
Places and Times (2003) (0)
Fearful symmetry (2001) (0)
The Voice and the Time: spiritual and protest song (2018) (0)
How Green Was My Valley: Feudal Landlords and Struggling Peasants (2017) (0)
The Iron Heel, or, We Didn’t Have Any Trouble: The Coming of Fascism (2017) (0)
"Which Party?": Reply to Siporin (1986) (0)
ORAL HISTORY, REMEMBERING PRACTICES AND THE PROBLEM OF “ACCESS” TO THE TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE1 (2020) (0)
The buried king and the memory of the future: From Washington Irving to Bruce Springsteen (2020) (0)

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Sapienza University of Rome