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Friday Night Is Music Night (Live)

by Nick Scavo

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Friday Night Is Music Night (Live) 21:04
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All profits from this release will be directed towards the Crowdfunding for Black Trans Folks GoFundMe Directory blacktranscrowdfunding.github.io

At a time when seemingly everyone is watching "The Sopranos" during the various stages of quarantine, and when Michael Imperioli is doing NTS mixes & Pitchfork features, I’ve thought about the mechanics of whiteness specifically as it relates to the immigrating Italian Americans in the 20th century and the musical “imprint” of this process. Many Italian Americans, once heavily influenced by labor organizing, Anti-Fascism, Marxism, Operaismo (Workism), and anarchism, have for decades been deeply rooted in the NYPD & the political power structure in NYC. Eric Garner was murdered by Daniel Pantaleo, an Italian-American police officer, and the “average joe” paesan Bolognese jokes that warmed Cuomo and de Blasio to many suburbanites throughout the pandemic are ceaseless. Beyond relationships with the NYPD, many Italian Americans have become entrenched in racism and are fully complicit in the maintenance of the status quo—as the recent Blue Lives Matter march in Bensonhurst demonstrates. Mulberry is one of the few streets in Lower Manhattan where you will see signs in support of the police during the recent protests and Black Lives Matter movement. ⁣
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The piece takes its name from a workers gathering & music night that took place on Mulberry street in 1919 that was eventually also (by chance?) used as the title for a long running BBC orchestral radio show. This piece is a composed “playlist” that presents a progression of manipulated recordings from Anti-Fascist workers songs from the early 20th century, eventually charting the assimilation into the capitalist & white supremacist Americanization of Italian American identities through the music of Louis Prima, Frank Sinatra, the Sicilian & Southern Italian heritage of last names like “Mancuso” and “Frusciante,” and eventually various stylized EDM subgenres as its imprint. Mobster voice actors and a very familiar Italian plumber are the “chorus.”

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released September 18, 2020

This recording of "Friday Night Is Music Night" was curated by Tabitha Piseno as a part of the "Requiems" series of performances on the rooftop at Lubov gallery, 5 East Broadway.

Artwork by Monchaa

Mastered by Jack Callahan

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Nick James Scavo is a musician and writer based in New York City.

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