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Author: Geronimo Trevino III Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications ISBN: 1556229275 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 273
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Small-town dance halls once overflowed with people flocking to see their favorite country bands and to dance. Dance Halls and Last Calls explores over one hundred of these vintage dance halls and their communities through the eyes of artists who played there.
Author: Geronimo Trevino III Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications ISBN: 1556229275 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 273
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Small-town dance halls once overflowed with people flocking to see their favorite country bands and to dance. Dance Halls and Last Calls explores over one hundred of these vintage dance halls and their communities through the eyes of artists who played there.
Author: Sean N. Gallup Publisher: TAMU Press ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 170
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In this book, the author honors the multicultural richness of rural America by revealing a rich and still-flourishing culture that is relatively unknown. Through a combination of more than one hundred poignant photographs and detailed captions, he gives visual evidence of the traditional connections and variety of contemporary Texas-Czech life and culture. He also shows the power of ethnic belonging as well as the forces of Texas-Czech cultural decline and rejuvenation.
Author: Edward Gibbon Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1625584156 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 525
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Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.
Author: Mildred Beik Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271074566 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 481
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In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of work, through the New Deal era of the 1930s, when the miners' rights to organize, join the United Mine Workers of America, and bargain collectively were recognized after years of bitter struggle. Mildred Allen Beik, a Windber native whose father entered the coal mines at age eleven in 1914, explores the struggle of miners and their families against the company, whose repressive policies encroached on every part of their lives. That Windber's population represented twenty-five different nationalities, including Slovaks, Hungarians, Poles, Italians, and Carpatho-Russians, was a potential obstacle to the solidarity of miners. Beik, however, shows how the immigrants overcame ethnic fragmentation by banding together as a class to unionize the mines. Work, family, church, fraternal societies, and civic institutions all proved critical as men and women alike adapted to new working conditions and to a new culture. Circumstance, if not principle, forced miners to embrace cultural pluralism in their fight for greater democracy, reforms of capitalism, and an inclusive, working-class, definition of what it meant to be an American. Beik draws on a wide variety of sources, including oral histories gathered from thirty-five of the oldest living immigrants in Windber, foreign-language newspapers, fraternal society collections, church manuscripts, public documents, union records, and census materials. The struggles of Windber's diverse working class undeniably mirror the efforts of working people everywhere to democratize the undemocratic America they knew. Their history suggests some of the possibilities and limitations, strengths and weaknesses, of worker protest in the early twentieth century.
Author: Janet Dawson Ebrom Publisher: ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 236
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John Sowa (1826-1876) married Mary Shefsiek (ca. 1834-1867). In 1856, they immigrated from Poland to Indianola, Texas. After Mary's death, John married Amelia Zoworka in 1868, and they moved from Victoria to St. Hedwig in Bexar County. Descendants remained chiefly in Texas.
Author: Ralph P. Locke Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520083950 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 384
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"The Victorian cup on my shelf--a present from my mother--reads 'Love the Giver.' Is it because the very word patronage implies the authority of the father that we have treated American women patrons and activists so unlovingly in the writing of our own history? This pioneering collection of superb scholarship redresses that imbalance. At the same time it brilliantly documents the interrelationship between various aspects of gender and the creation of our own culture."--Judith Tick, author of Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music "Together with the fine-grained and energetic research, I like the spirit of this book, which is ambitious, bold, and generous minded. Cultivating Music in America corrects long-standing prejudices, omissions, and misunderstandings about the role of women in setting up the structures of America's musical life, and, even more far-reaching, it sheds light on the character of American musical life itself. To read this book is to be brought to a fresh understanding of what is at stake when we discuss notions such as 'elitism, ' 'democratic taste, ' and the political and economic implications of art."--Richard Crawford, author of The American Musical Landscape "We all know we are indebted to royal patronage for the music of Mozart. But who launched American talent? The answer is women, this book teaches us. Music lovers will be grateful for these ten essays, sound in scholarship, that make a strong case for the women philanthropists who ought to join Carnegie and Rockefeller as household words as sponsors of music."--Karen J. Blair, author of The Torchbearers: Women and Their Amateur Arts Associations in America
Author: Marie Brinkman Publisher: Paulist Press ISBN: 9780809145409 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 628
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Founded in Indian Territory in 1858, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth met, a century later, challenges of a new frontier in the church's call to adapt to modern circumstances and in their own awareness of deepening social and ecclesial needs. For three decades, sisters struggled with conditions that threatened unity: issues of governance, demands of professional training, diverse backgrounds, differing experience of communal life, developing theology of religious vows. Diminishing numbers coupled with need for leadership led to new institutional roles and new forms of ministry. Emerging Frontiers records the struggle and its outcome. A common past and determination to stay together marked the long search for a renewed common vision. A new century brought re-dedication to a Vincentian heritage and far-flung partnerships in the mission given by Jesus Christ to his people. Commitment to those in need, especially women and children; fidelity to the church; faithful relationship with those of means and good will, and with the earth; transition to sponsorship of institutional ministries, many now administered by lay women and men; solidarity with all who stand for justice and peace: this was the resolution of a renewed Community whose story is told here.
Author: Catholic Church Diocese of Joliet (I Publisher: Hassell Street Press ISBN: 9781013307300 Category : Languages : en Pages : 204
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Author: Geronimo Trevino III
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Author: Sean N. Gallup
Author: Edward Gibbon
Author: Mildred Beik
Author: Janet Dawson Ebrom
Author: Ralph P. Locke
Author: Marie Brinkman
Author: Catholic Church Diocese of Joliet (I
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