Author: Spillville Historic Action GroupPublisher:
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Category : Music festivals
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Remembering Dvořák, 1893/1993
Author: Spillville Historic Action GroupPublisher:
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Category : Music festivals
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The History of the Detroit Mounted Police, 1893-1993
Author: Patrick H. MuscatPublisher:
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Category : Mounted police
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Annals of Iowa
Author: Music News from Prague
Author: SVU Bulletin
Author: Czechoslovak Society of Arts and SciencesPublisher:
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Category : Czech Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Footsteps at the American World's Fairs
Author: Stanley K. HunterPublisher:
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Category : Exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Antonín Dvořák, My Father
Author: Otakar DvořákPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
This book is a personal biography by Antonin Dvořák's son who at the age of seventy-five years old decided to "write about the events missing from the other books about my father." For musicologists, Otakar's biography of his father contains many new items, but basically the book portrays Dvořák as a father.
Rethinking Dvořák
Author: David R. BeveridgePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198164111
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The 24 essays offer penetrating insights into Dvorak's personality, his place in history, and the sheer beauty of his music. How this music was received and appreciated is a subject of special focus, offering explanations as to why, despite the composer's popularity, some of his greatest compositions have remained unknown.
Harry T. Burleigh
Author: Jean E SnyderPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252098102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Harry T. Burleigh (1866-1949) played a leading role in American music and culture in the twentieth century. Celebrated for his arrangements of spirituals, Burleigh was also the first African American composer to create a significant body of art song. An international roster of opera and recital singers performed his works and praised them as among the best of their time. Jean E. Snyder traces Burleigh's life from his Pennsylvania childhood through his fifty-year tenure as soloist at St. George's Episcopal Church in Manhattan. As a composer, Burleigh's pioneering work preserved and transformed the African American spiritual; as a music editor, he facilitated the work of other black composers; as a role model, vocal coach, and mentor, he profoundly influenced American song; and in private life he was friends with Antonín Dvořák, Marian Anderson, Will Marion Cook, and other America luminaries. Snyder provides rich historical, social, and political contexts that explore Burleigh's professional and personal life within an era complicated by changes in race relations, class expectations, and musical tastes.
Transnational American Memories
Author: Udo HebelPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110224216
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
The volume gathers twenty original essays by experts of American memory studies from the United States and Europe. It extends discussions of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. In the contexts of the theoretical turns since the 1990s, including prominently the pictorial and the spatial turns, and in the wake of multicultural and international conceptions of American history, the contributions to the collection explore the cultural productivity and political implications of both officially endorsed memories and practices of oppositional remembrance. Reading sites of memory situated in or related to the United States as crossroads of transnational and intercultural remembering and commemoration manifests their possibly controversial function as platforms and agents in the processes of cultural exchange and political negotiation across the spatial, temporal, and ideological trajectories that inform American Studies as Atlantic Studies, Hemispheric Studies, Pacific Studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world’s fairs as transnational sites of memory.