Career
Italian writer and journalist specializes in African-American music Music journalist, sociologist, and critic of the Italian daily Roma and art director of the Italian Festival of Ragtime. Degree in Sociology of Communications, collaborates with Radiotelevisione Italiana Radio from the 1980s, for which he conducted jazz programs and regularly publishes essays on Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana published by Radiotelevisione Italiana. He organizes courses of Afro-American music and Creative Writing workshops in various Italian universities and music conservatories including San Pietro a Majella.
He is the author of the only ragtime history in Italian language, published by Marsilio Editori (Venice) in two editions, in 1984 and in 1991.
Collaborates with the Foundation for the Encyclopedia Italiana Treccani for African-American voices and other international journals as the American CODA.