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Frank Sinatra: The Voice
124 • Italian American Review 2.2 • Summer 2012 Frank: The Voice. By James Kaplan. New York: Doubleday, 2010. 786 pages. That Old Black Magic: Louis Prima, Keely Smith, and the Golden Age of Las Vegas. By Tom Clavin. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2010. 224 pages. Amore: The Story of Italian American Song. By Mark Rotella. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 320 pages. “Music has always been and continues to be one of the primary forms of Italian American expression and the area of perhaps its strongest contribution to the common culture because it involves the spheres of classical as well as popular music,” observe Robert Connolly and Pellegrino D’Acierno, in their essay “Italian American Musical Culture and Its Contribution to American Music” (1999, 387). Three recent titles focus on Italian-American music making during an era that Connolly and D’Acierno characterize as “the long farewell to bel canto,” from the 1930s to the early 1960s, when Itali
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Sinatra: The Chairman
Book Reviews Sinatra: The Chairman. By James Kaplan. New York: Doubleday, 2015. 979 pages. ©2016 John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Downloaded from http://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/iar/article-pdf/6/2/296/1202774/italamerrevi.6.2.0296.pdf by guest on 08 February 2022 Writing a biography of Frank Sinatra would seem a challenging task at this stage. The spectacular highs and lows of Sinatra’s career, massive critical acclaim, and an epic life—one could hardly term it “private”—long ago propelled him to iconic status and provide an extraordinary biographical narrative. The vast number of biographies that have been written about Sinatra attest to the potency of his story and simultaneously pose the problem of how to distinguish any new book from its predecessors. Kitty Kelley’s 1986 His Way: The Unauthorized Biography casts a long shadow. Despite Kelley’s singularly unflattering assessment of her subject, her extensive research makes it still