Simona Frasca

Simona Frasca earned a doctor’s degree in History and Analysis of Musical Cultures at La Sapienza University, Rome. Her field of research is the social history of music, free jazz, the early sound reproduction era in relation to popular production and the Italian migration to the United States. She was a Fulbright Researcher at the Calandra Institute in New York City as well as a freelance music critic. Frasca is the author of Norah Jones, Piano Girl; Birds of Passage: La diaspora dei musicisti napoletani a New York, which has been translated into English. She is currently working on issues of piracy and the illegal music market in Italy.