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Category : Czech Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Bohemians Prominent in Manitowoc County History
Author: On a Wisconsin Family Farm: Historic Tales of Character, Community and Culture
Author: Corey A. GeigerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467145289
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
On a Wisconsin Family Farm flings the barn doors wide open to a cast of characters that built America's Dairyland. A maternal maverick, Anna Satorie, went against cultural-norms and became the sole owner of her family's homestead in 1905. The next year, Anna married John Burich, and the couple went about building a thrifty family farm. Pioneer life was fraught with trials and tribulations as polio and tuberculosis claimed loved ones and the fabricated death of a bootlegging brother turned gangsters away from the farm. Neighbors pitched in as members of the immigrant class aided one another to construct farmsteads and support one another through unsanctioned bank loans, daring dynamite work and barn raisings. Leasing work aside, this community also threw parties met by the rooster's early-dawn crow. Corey Geiger, international agricultural journalist, pairs his rural roots and lively storytelling talents to capture six generations of local tales. Book jacket.
History of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin: Biographical
Author: Louis FalgePublisher:
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Category : Manitowoc County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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A Passion for Polka
Author: Victor GreenePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911725
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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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.
Czech American Bibliography
Author: Miloslav RechciglPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467026328
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This is a comprehensive bibliography of publications relating to Czechs in America, from the earliest time since the discovery of the New World to date, covering their settlement, community life and their contributions to their host country. Although emphasis is on English titles, including books, as well as articles, the relevant titles in Czech language have also been included, particularly in those areas where there is a paucity of English titles. English translations of the Czech titles were normally placed in parentheses. To assure maximum utility, the bibliography has been organized and classified into specific sectors by subject. Under most major headings, general surveys are listed first, followed by more specific categories, which have, in turn, been subdivided into subcategories. Individual entries in all sections are arranged chronologically. Under most subject areas separate biographical sections were added, comprising individuals of note in the respective fields. Apart from providing information on just about every aspect of human endeavor, it is hoped that it will induce serious students and scholars to do more work in areas that have not been adequately researched.
A History of Manitowoc County
Author: Ralph Gordon PlumbPublisher:
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Category : Manitowoc County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Wisconsin Magazine of History
Author: Milo Milton QuaifePublisher:
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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The Wisconsin Archeologist
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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History of Northern Wisconsin
Author: Wisconsin, Its History and Its People, 1634-1924
Author: Milo Milton QuaifePublisher:
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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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