Despite the laments of some nineteenth-century German immigrants that America was a land bereft of poetry and song, a "land without nightingales, " the history of German American music is a rich one. This book explores the wide variety of forms of musical expression among German-speaking immigrants to America and their descendants from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics range from Moravian music in colonial America to musical life among twenty-first century Canadian Hutterites, from polka music to German singing societies, from Lutheran hymns to the songs of German-speaking Catholic and Jewish immigrants, and from the songs of German-speaking Swiss settlers to the music of immigrants from the Burgenland region of Austria.
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ISBN | 9780924119040 |
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Sprache | eng |
Cover | Fester Einband |
Verlag | University of Wisconsin Press |
Jahr | 20021021 |
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