A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants Between Old World and New, 1830-1930 Tapa dura - 2004

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Kent State University Press, 2004. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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1st printing. Fine hardcover in Fine DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; light dust spotting on text block edges; tightly bound; bright, crisp, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete. 8vo, 215 pp; index, biblio; illustrated. This is a new, unread book.

Hardback. New. A Singing Ambivalence undertakes a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups - Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans - responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Each group's songs reveal an abiding concern over leaving their loved ones and homeland and an anxiety about adjusting to the new society. But accompanying these feelings was an excitement about the possibilities of becoming wealthy and about looking forward to a democratic and free society. Distinguished historian Victor Greene surveys an extensive body of songs of known and unknown origins that comment on the problems immigrants faced and reveals the wide range of responses they made to the radical changes in their new lives in America. His selection of lyrics provides useful capsules of expression that clarify the ways in which immigrants defined themselves and staked out their claims for acceptance in… Leer más

Kent State Univ Pr, 2004. Hardcover. New. illustrated edition edition. 215 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.00 inches.

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