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.
Czech American Bibliography
Czech American Bibliography - 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 American Bibliography write by Miloslav Rechcigl. This book was released on 2011-10-20. Czech American Bibliography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is a comprehensive bibliography of publications relating to Czechs in America, from the earliest time since the discovery of the New World to date, covering their settlement, community life and their contributions to their host country. Although emphasis is on English titles, including books, as well as articles, the relevant titles in Czech language have also been included, particularly in those areas where there is a paucity of English titles. English translations of the Czech titles were normally placed in parentheses. To assure maximum utility, the bibliography has been organized and classified into specific sectors by subject. Under most major headings, general surveys are listed first, followed by more specific categories, which have, in turn, been subdivided into subcategories. Individual entries in all sections are arranged chronologically. Under most subject areas separate biographical sections were added, comprising individuals of note in the respective fields. Apart from providing information on just about every aspect of human endeavor, it is hoped that it will induce serious students and scholars to do more work in areas that have not been adequately researched.
Czech Voices
Czech Voices - 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 Voices write by Clinton Machann. This book was released on 1991. Czech Voices available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 39." Early Czech immigrants in Texas.
Czech Songs in Texas
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.”
A Passion for Polka
A Passion for Polka - 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 A Passion for Polka write by Victor Greene. This book was released on 2023-12-22. A Passion for Polka available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over the radio, and dazzled television viewers across the country. Lending star quality to the ethnic music of Poles, Italians, Slovaks, Jews, and Scandinavians, luminaries like Frankie Yankovic, the Polka King, and "Whoopee John" Wilfart became household names to millions of Americans. In this vivid and engaging book, Victor Greene uncovers a wonderful corner of American social history as he traces the popularization of old-time ethnic music from the turn of the century to the 1960s. Drawing on newspaper clippings, private collections, ethnic societies, photographs, recordings, and interviews with musicians and promoters, Greene chronicles the emergence of a new mass culture that drew heavily on the vivid color, music, and dance of ethnic communities. In this story of American ethnic music, with its countless entertainers performing never-forgotten tunes in hundreds of small cities around the country, Greene revises our notion of how many Americans experienced cultural life. In the polka belt, extending from Connecticut to Nebraska and from Texas up to Minnesota and the Dakotas, not only were polkas, laendlers, schottisches, and waltzes a musical passion, but they shone a scintillating new light on the American cultural landscape. Greene follows the fortunes of groups like the Gold Chain Bohemians, illuminating the development of an important segment of American popular music that fed the craze for international dance music. And even though old-time music declined in the 1960s, overtaken by rock and roll, a new Grammy for the polka was initiated in 1986. In its ebullience and vitality, the genre endures.
