A passion for polka : old-time ethnic music in America / Victor Greene.
Material type: TextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1992.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 355 pages, 25 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780520911727
- 0520911725
- 0585214239
- 9780585214238
- Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism
- Music -- United States -- History and criticism
- Music and race
- MUSIC -- Ethnic
- MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Folk & Traditional
- Folk music
- Music and race
- Music
- United States
- Music History & Criticism, National - Folk, Patriotic, Political
- Music
- Music, Dance, Drama & Film
- 781.62/00973 20
- ML3551 .G696 1992eb
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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