A passion for polka : old-time ethnic music in America /
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1992.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.8441766 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface (p.vii)
- Introduction (p.1)
- Ethnic music and American band music (p.15)
- Italian bands and American popular music (p.31)
- The rise of the ethnic music business, 1900-1920 (p.47)
- Record companies discover the ethnic groups, 1900-1930 (p.70)
- Immigrant entertainers fashion their audience (p.90)
- Hard times and ethnic old-time in the crossover age, 1930-1940 (p.113)
- Regional crossover bands, I : Texas and Minnesota, 1930-1950 (p.140)
- Regional crossover bands, II : Wisconsin and Cleveland, 1930-1950 (p.162).
- Cont.): Americanized Scandinavian and Polish Bands: New York and the East, 1930-1960 (p.180)
- Ethnic music becomes popular music, 1940-1960 (p.207)
- Frankie Yankovic: The Polka King when polka was king (p.229)
- Epilogue (p.243)
- Notes (p.251)
- Bibliographic essay (p.323)
- Index (p.335).