Czech Songs in Texas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Czech Songs in Texas write by Frances Barton. This book was released on 2021-07-15. Czech Songs in Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On any weekend in Texas, Czech polka music enlivens dance halls and drinking establishments as well as outdoor church picnics and festivals. The songs heard at these venues are the living music of an ethnic community created by immigrants who started arriving in Central Texas in the mid-nineteenth century from what is now the Czech Republic. Today, the members of this community speak English but their songs are still sung in Czech. Czech Songs in Texas includes sixty-one songs, mostly polkas and waltzes. The songs themselves are beloved heirlooms ranging from ceremonial music with origins in Moravian wedding traditions to exuberant polkas celebrating the pleasures of life. For each song, the book provides music notation and Czech lyrics with English translation. An essay explores the song’s European roots, its American evolution, and the meaning of its lyrics and lists notable performances and recordings. In addition to the songs and essays, Frances Barton provides a chapter on the role of music in the Texas Czech ethnic community, and John K. Novak surveys Czech folk and popular music in its European home. The book both documents a specific musical inheritance and serves as a handbook for learning about a culture through its songs. As folklorist and polka historian James P. Leary writes in his foreword, “Barton and Novak take us on a poetic, historical, and ethnographic excursion deep into a community’s expressive heartland. Their Czech Songs in Texas just might be the finest extant annotated anthology of any American immigrant/ethnic group's regional song tradition.”
The History of Texas Music
The History of Texas Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Texas Music write by Gary Hartman. This book was released on 2008-03-08. The History of Texas Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The richly diverse ethnic heritage of the Lone Star State has brought to the Southwest a remarkable array of rhythms, instruments, and musical styles that have blended here in unique ways and, in turn, have helped shape the music of the nation and the world. Historian Gary Hartman writes knowingly and lovingly of the Lone Star State’s musical traditions. In the first thorough survey of the vast and complex cultural mosaic that has produced what we know today as “Texas music,” he paints a broad, panoramic view, offers analysis of the origins of and influences on specific genres, profiles key musicians, and provides guidance to additional sources for further information. A musician himself, Hartman draws on both academic and non-academic sources to give a more complete understanding of the state’s remarkable musical history and ethnic community studies with his first-hand knowledge of how important music is as a cultural medium through which human beings communicate information, ideas, emotions, values, and beliefs, and bond together as friends, families, and communities. The History of Texas Music incorporates a selection of well-chosen photographs of both prominent and less-well-known artists and describes not only the ethnic origins of much of Texas music but also the cross-pollination among various genres. Today, the music of Texas—which includes Native American music, gospel, blues, ragtime, swing, jazz, rhythm and blues, conjunto, Tejano, Cajun, zydeco, western swing, honky tonk, polkas, schottsches, rock & roll, rap, hip hop and more—reflects the unique cultural dynamics of the Southwest.
The Roots of Texas Music
The Roots of Texas Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Roots of Texas Music write by Lawrence Clayton. This book was released on 2005-09-09. The Roots of Texas Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The music of Texas and the American Southwest is as diverse and distinctive as the many different groups who have lived in the region over the past several centuries,” writes Gary Hartman in his introduction to this refreshingly different look at various genres of Texas music. Roots of Texas Music celebrates the diverse sources of the music of the Lone Star State by gathering chapters by specialists on each of them—specialists whose views may not have dominated the perception of Texas music to date. Editor Lawrence Clayton conceived this project as one that would not simply repeat the common wisdom about Texas music traditions, but rather would offer new perspectives. He therefore called on contributors whose work had been well-grounded but not necessarily widely published. The result is a lively, captivating, and original look at the musical traditions of Texas Germans and Czechs, black Creoles and Chicanos, and blues and gospel singers. Hartman’s introduction places these repertoires within the larger picture of one of the most fertile musical seedbeds the nation knows. The diverse genres included in the anthology also provide an introduction to the classes, cultures, races, and ethnic groups of Texas and highlight the ways in which the state’s musical wealth has influenced the listening habits of the nation.
Perilous Voyages
Perilous Voyages - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Perilous Voyages write by Lawrence H. Konecny. This book was released on 2004. Perilous Voyages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes William Gilliam Kingsbury's 1877 pamphlet: A description of south-western and middle Texas (United States)
Papers from Czech Music in Texas, a Sesquicentennial Symposium
Papers from Czech Music in Texas, a Sesquicentennial Symposium - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Papers from Czech Music in Texas, a Sesquicentennial Symposium write by Clinton Machann. This book was released on 1988. Papers from Czech Music in Texas, a Sesquicentennial Symposium available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
