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9 produkter
Polkabilly
How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music
Inbunden, 2006
991 kr
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A freewheeling blend of continental European folk music and the songs, tunes, and dances of Anglo and Celtic immigrants, polkabilly has enthralled American musicians and dancers since the mid-19th century. From West Virginia coal camps and east Texas farms to the Canadian prairies and America's …
Rights of Nature
History of Environmental Ethics
Av Roderick Nash, James P. Leary m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
218 kr
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Charting the history of contemporary philosophical and religious beliefs regarding nature, Roderick Nash focuses primarily on changing attitudes toward nature in the United States. His work is the first comprehensive history of the concept that nature has rights and that American liberalism has, in …
Wisconsin Folklore
Häftad, 1999
387 kr
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A comprehensive collection of writings about the varied folklore in the American state of Wisconsin, this anthology is divided into five sections: terms and talk; storytelling; music, song and dance; beliefs and customs; and material traditions and folklife.
So Ole Says to Lena
Folk Humor of the Upper Midwest
Häftad, 2001
246 kr
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In the land of beer, cheese, and muskies - where the polka is danced and winter is unending and where Lutherans and Catholics predominate - everybody is ethnic, the politics are clean, and the humor is plentiful. This collection includes jokes, humorous anecdotes, and tall tales from ethnic groups …
Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers
Folk Traditions of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
Av Richard Mercer Dorson, James P. Leary
Häftad, 2008
283 kr
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Remote and rugged, Michigan's Upper Peninsula (fondly known as ""the U.P."") has been home to a rich variety of indigenous peoples and Old World immigrants - a heritage deeply embedded in today's ""Yooper"" culture. Ojibwes, French Canadians, Finns, Cornish, Poles, Italians, Slovenians, and others …
Pinery Boys
Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era
Av Franz Rickaby, Gretchen Dykstra m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
297 kr
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As the heyday of the lumber camps faded, a young scholar named Franz Rickaby set out to find songs from shanty boys, river drivers, and sawmill hands in the Upper Midwest. Traveling mostly on foot with a fiddle slung over his shoulder, Rickaby fell into easy conversation with the men, collecting …
Wisconsin Folklore
Inbunden, 1999
788 kr
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A comprehensive collection of writings about the varied folklore in the American state of Wisconsin, this anthology is divided into five sections: terms and talk; storytelling; music, song and dance; beliefs and customs; and material traditions and folklife.
Ach Ya!
Traditional German-American Music from Wisconsin
Av Philip Martin, James P. Leary
CD-bok, 2005
194 kr
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Now available as a double CD, ""Ach Ya!"" was selected in 1985 as an outstanding American folk music recording by the Library of Congress American Folk life Center. Featuring a Capella singers, yodelers, zither players, button accordionists, and full-fledged 'Dutchman' bands from Watertown to …
Down Home Dairyland
A Listener's Guide
Häftad, 2004
223 kr
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Drawing on decades of research, folklorists Jim Leary and Richard March have distilled a definitive presentation of Upper Midwestern traditional and ethnic music, from Ojibwa drums to Norwegian fiddles, from polka to salsa, from gospel choirs to southeast Asian rock bands. The book Down Home …
