Fully-illustrated The Passenger collects the best new writing photography art and reportage
from around the world. IN THIS VOLUME: Paolo Macry on Naples' "monarch mayors"・Francesco Abazia
on the influence of the US Army's presence on Neapolitan popular music・Cristina Napolitano on
the Neapolitan diaspora and what it means to come back・Gianni Montieri on the city's passion
for football・Alessandra Coppola on the cult of the young victims of the Camorra or the police
and much more... In recent years Naples has been the subject of countless books films and TV
series making it even more difficult to imagine a Neapolitan normality if it exists at all.
As Naples becomes the most filmed city in Italy where to look for the ordinary the average?
Maybe we need to "go up" to Vomero a neighborhood considered almost alien to the city middle
class homogeneous peaceful? A reality in sharp contrast with the over-the-top life of the
historic centre crossed as it is by a thousand stratifications - architectural historical and
social. And yet even there we find an alternative reading: the city as a model of coexistence
between ancient and modern. While some areas have been waiting for decades for much promised
redevelopment others have benefited from cutting-edge projects with far-reaching positive
impact representing a Naples that attracts talent exports models and colonizes instead of
being colonized.
