...’s lingering presence within the public consciousness, as the camorra’s dealings have indeed permeated many such ventures done in the act of performing the art of making do (l’arte di arrangiarsi). The camorra have begun to develop business relationships with the people performing...

... the performance of personal sovereignty. Even the anecdote regarding an ironic but fitting description of a counterfeit article as an authentic Neapolitan fake illustrates the complex reality of what it means to perform the art of making do. This chaotic atmosphere and its affective-aesthetic effects leave little...

... with frustrations for want of a determinate denouement or ending. These people engage in murky affective-aesthetic experiences with the camorra. They are complicit in the more illegal practices of making do in the neomelodica music scene, in order to, perhaps someday acquire a determinate future...

... by the masses for the masses. Neomelodica gained wild popularity over time, entrenching itself within the local economic space as an alternative culture industry. For Neapolitans, it became their primary means of “making do.” In Naples, people seek self-determination—above merely “getting by,” they exercise...

...This chapter discusses the persistent tensions and interrelations between the neomelodica music scene and organized crime. Neomelodica is perceived as an entrepreneurial art of l’arte di arrangiarsi (“the art of making do”), pertinent to a localized, informal...

... of the personal sovereignty intertwined in acts of making do. In the first act a boy and his father speculate on opportunities in the neomelodica scene, and in the process they discuss the malavitosi. In the second act, the son must make the transition to husband and father by marrying...

... sought after by those engaged in the art of making do. affective–aesthetic atmospheres contact contact zones economies “B” economy ethnographic fieldwork and breakthroughs after excessive hanging out Festival deall Sanità Francesco a journalist Gaetano a k a ’O lione an alleged boss impresario...