Fritz A H Leuchs The Early German Theatre In New York 1840 1872
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Music in German Immigrant Theater
Author | : John Koegel |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1580462154 |
A history -- the first ever -- of the abundant traditions of German-American musical theater in New York, and a treasure trove of songs and information.
The Immigrant Scene
Author | : Sabine Haenni |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816649812 |
Yiddish melodramas about the tribulations of immigration. German plays about alpine tourism. Italian vaudeville performances. Rubbernecking tours of Chinatown. In the New York City of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these seemingly disparate leisure activities played similar roles: mediating the vast cultural, demographic, and social changes that were sweeping the nation's largest city. In The Immigrant Scene, Sabine Haenni reveals how theaters in New York created ethnic entertainment that shaped the culture of the United States in the early twentieth century. Considering the relationship between leisure and mass culture, The Immigrant Scene develops a new picture of the metropolis in which the movement of people, objects, and images on-screen and in the street helped residents negotiate the complexities of modern times. In analyzing how communities engaged with immigrant theaters and the nascent film culture in New York City, Haenni traces the ways in which performance and cinema provided virtual mobility--ways of navigating the socially complex metropolis--and influenced national ideas of immigration, culture, and diversity in surprising and lasting ways.
Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863
Author | : Robert Ernst |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1994-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780815602903 |
This is a historical study of acculturation in New York City. It documents the Americanization of foreign enclaves within the city, showing the effects produced by church, school, foreign-language press and libraries - the methods by which the Democratic Party enlisted the immigrant vote.
Deborah and Her Sisters
Author | : Jonathan M. Hess |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0812249585 |
Before Fiddler on the Roof, there was Deborah, a blockbuster melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Deborah and Her Sisters offers the first comprehensive history of this transnational phenomenon, focusing on its ability to bring Jews and non-Jews together during a period of increasing antisemitism.
Tenement Songs
Author | : Mark Slobin |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780252065620 |
"An excellent addition to . . . ethnomusicological studies of nontraditional music in America." -- Choice "A well-deserved look at the musical world of immigrant Jews, who, in finding and creating an expressive medium for self-identity, helped shape and give life to American popular culture." -- Ethnomusicology "Employing the tools of the ethnomusicologist and the social historian, Slobin has produced an important and highly readable account of the formation and function of a little-studied aspect of American popular culture." -- Journal of American Studies
The Hooded Eagle
Author | : Peter Bauland |
Publisher | : Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Translating America
Author | : Peter Conolly-Smith |
Publisher | : Smithsonian Institution |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2015-09-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1588345203 |
At the turn of the century, New York City's Germans constituted a culturally and politically dynamic community, with a population 600,000 strong. Yet fifty years later, traces of its culture had all but disappeared. What happened? The conventional interpretation has been that, in the face of persecution and repression during World War I, German immigrants quickly gave up their own culture and assimilated into American mainstream life. But in Translating America, Peter Conolly-Smith offers a radically different analysis. He argues that German immigrants became German-Americans not out of fear, but instead through their participation in the emerging forms of pop culture. Drawing from German and English newspapers, editorials, comic strips, silent movies, and popular plays, he reveals that German culture did not disappear overnight, but instead merged with new forms of American popular culture before the outbreak of the war. Vaudeville theaters, D.W. Griffith movies, John Philip Sousa tunes, and even baseball games all contributed to German immigrants' willing transformation into Americans. Translating America tackles one of the thorniest questions in American history: How do immigrants assimilate into, and transform, American culture?