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A passion for polka : old-time ethnic music in America / Victor Greene.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 355 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520911727
  • 0520911725
  • 0585214239
  • 9780585214238
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Passion for polka.DDC classification:
  • 781.62/00973 20
LOC classification:
  • ML3551 .G696 1992eb
Online resources:
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).
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-322) and index.

Print version record.

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).

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