The Italian Theatre in San Francisco
Title | The Italian Theatre in San Francisco PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Estavan |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | 124 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0893704644 |
A history of the Italian-American operatic, dramatic, and comedic productions presented in the San Francisco Bay area through the Depression Era, with reminiscences of the leading players and impresarios of the time, reworked and re-edited by Mary A. Burgess from the Federal Writers Project production of 1939.
The Italian Theatre in San Francisco
Title | The Italian Theatre in San Francisco PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Estavan |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1939 |
Genre | Italians |
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The Italian Theatre in San Francisco
Title | The Italian Theatre in San Francisco PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 120 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Italians |
ISBN |
San Francisco Theatre Research
Title | San Francisco Theatre Research PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 660 |
Release | 1940 |
Genre | Theater |
ISBN |
The Italian American Experience
Title | The Italian American Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Salvatore J. LaGumina |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 733 |
Release | 2003-09-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1135583331 |
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A New Language, A New World
Title | A New Language, A New World PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy C. Carnevale |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | 262 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0252090772 |
An examination of Italian immigrants and their children in the early twentieth century, A New Language, A New World is the first full-length historical case study of one immigrant group's experience with language in America. Incorporating the interdisciplinary literature on language within a historical framework, Nancy C. Carnevale illustrates the complexity of the topic of language in American immigrant life. By looking at language from the perspectives of both immigrants and the dominant culture as well as their interaction, this book reveals the role of language in the formation of ethnic identity and the often coercive context within which immigrants must negotiate this process.
A Passion for Polka
Title | A Passion for Polka PDF eBook |
Author | Victor Greene |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 608 |
Release | 2023-12-22 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0520911725 |
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.