

Paul has distributed countless Christmas, holiday and instrumental albums over the past 20 years in an effort to raise money for disabled veterans through “Homes For Our Troops” ( And through his music, he has also contributed his time and talents to help raise money for “St. More than 40 years later, he became inspired once again and decided to perform publicly for the first time in four decades to help raise money for American Veterans, their families and the thousands of children dealing with terminal illness in our country. He had never taken a lesson or studied music in any formal sense, but simply had a talent and passion to “play by ear.” During his service days, Paul played night after night by listening and imitating recordings of world-famous pianists.

Many nights he frequently found himself sitting at the single piano located in the (often empty) Officers’ Club ballroom. His commanding officer took an interest in his willingness to learn and encouraged him to explore his creative outlet. Os 1 Professor da Università degli Studi di Catania (UNICT)/FLACSO España.Paul DiPersio, Sr., began playing the piano while serving in the United States Air Force as a young man. O quadro ora em análise refere-se a uma área mediterrânea na qual a crise industrial dos anos Setenta do século XX não conseguiu atenuar a pressão sobre o ambiente local, apenas se modificaram as modalidades da sua exploração. RESUMO O caso da Sicília Oriental pode servir de parâmetro para se pensar sobre um modelo de leitura das modalidades através das quais, nos últimos quarenta anos, foram verificadas diversas crises ecológicas bem como sobre o modo por meio do qual se consolidaram muitos processos de empobrecimento e erosão dos recursos. Parole-chiave: Crisi ecologiche, accumulation by dispossession, ecologia politica, ambiente Mediterraneo. Il risultato semba essere un quadro in cui l'insieme delle attività umane è stato segnato dai processi di accumulazione per spoliazione e dall'estrazione di valore dalla biosfera. I principali processi che si sono realizzati, come la dismissione industriale, la crisi dell'agricoltura, la nascita dei nuovi poli commerciali e l'espansione urbana, hanno avuto uno stretto legame con le grandi trasformazioni globali e hanno partecipato alla produzione di una crisi ambientale.

Novecento non ha prodotto un alleggerimento della pressione sull'ambiente locale, si sono solo modificate le modalità di sfruttamento. Il quadro che emerge è quello di un'area mediterranea in cui la crisi industriale degli anni Settanta del. RIASSUNTO Il caso della Sicilia Orientale può essere utilizzato per ragionare su un modello di lettura delle modalità con cui nell'ultimo quarantennio si sono verificate diverse crisi ecologiche e sul modo con cui si sono affermati molti processi di impoverimento ed erosione delle risorse. The final section of the article considers the malign and utopian symbolism of the player-piano in the work of William Gaddis and Conlon Nancarrow, among other other writers and composers. Both the phonograph and player-piano technologies reverberated in the formation of modern society, the phonograph exemplifying the phenomenological rupture of time and space, the player-piano embodying the epistemological shift marked by machines storing and executing growing amounts of human knowledge, from automated industrial manufacturing to computers. Analyzing the production of sound along the same lines as Harry Braverman's analysis of manufacturing and automation, the article treats the phonograph and the player-piano as aspects of musical mechanization, which had expanded dramatically through the piano in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It argues that the two technologies developed in complementary, dialectical relation to each other: one analog, storing and conveying an acoustic event (i.e., sound-in-time) the other, digital, storing and conveying in binary form information for (re)producing sound (i.e., sound-in-knowledge).

This article reframes the history of recorded sound to take phonographs and player-pianos into account on more or less equal terms.
