Enrico Caruso, un napoletano americano

While framing Enrico Caruso as a world-wide recognized pioneer in the early recording era of the 20th century, this article offers a portrait of Caruso as an American-made superstar who subtly critiqued the American politics and propaganda through the music industry, and redraws his figure by taking a multicultural perspective that focuses on features of his life and career that remain relatively unexplored.
More specifically, it highlights how Caruso, fashioned as a media star stands also as symbol of cross-cultural dialogue, and found himself steeped in the politics of the American music industry and on American soil, where he helped replace racialized stereotypes with more positive images of Italians in the U.S.