Cleveland Foreign Language Newspaper Digest
Author : United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1939
Category : American newspapers
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Author : United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1939
Category : American newspapers
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Author : United States. Work Projects Administration
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Page : 988 pages
File Size : 39,13 MB
Release : 1940
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Author : Jeffrey Mirel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 36,83 MB
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674046382
In this book, leading historian of education Jeffrey E. Mirel retells a story we think we know, in which public schools forced a draconian Americanization on the great waves of immigration of a century ago. Ranging from the 1890s through the World War II years, Mirel argues that Americanization was a far more nuanced and negotiated process from the start, much shaped by immigrants themselves.Drawing from detailed descriptions of Americanization programs for both schoolchildren and adults in three cities (Chicago, Cleveland, and Detroit) and from extensive analysis of foreign-language newspapers, Mirel shows how immigrants confronted different kinds of Americanization. When native-born citizens contemptuously tried to force them to forsake their home religions, languages, or histories, immigrants pushed back strongly. While they passionately embraced key aspects of Americanization—the English language, American history, democratic political ideas, and citizenship—they also found in American democracy a defense of their cultural differences. In seeing no conflict between their sense of themselves as Italians, or Germans, or Poles, and Americans, they helped to create a new and inclusive vision of this country.Mirel vividly retells the epic story of one of the great achievements of American education, which has profound implications for the Americanization of immigrants today.
Author : United States. Federal Works Agency. Library
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Page : 370 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1942
Category : Government libraries
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Author : United States. Work Projects Administration
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 1943
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 1943
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 49,70 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Union catalogs
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Author : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
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Page : 840 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 1969
Category : International relations
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Author : Victor Greene
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520911725
Not so long ago, songs by the Andrews Sisters and Lawrence Welk blasted from phonographs, lilted over the radio, and dazzled television viewers across the country. Lending star quality to the ethnic music of Poles, Italians, Slovaks, Jews, and Scandinavians, luminaries like Frankie Yankovic, the Polka King, and "Whoopee John" Wilfart became household names to millions of Americans. In this vivid and engaging book, Victor Greene uncovers a wonderful corner of American social history as he traces the popularization of old-time ethnic music from the turn of the century to the 1960s. Drawing on newspaper clippings, private collections, ethnic societies, photographs, recordings, and interviews with musicians and promoters, Greene chronicles the emergence of a new mass culture that drew heavily on the vivid color, music, and dance of ethnic communities. In this story of American ethnic music, with its countless entertainers performing never-forgotten tunes in hundreds of small cities around the country, Greene revises our notion of how many Americans experienced cultural life. In the polka belt, extending from Connecticut to Nebraska and from Texas up to Minnesota and the Dakotas, not only were polkas, laendlers, schottisches, and waltzes a musical passion, but they shone a scintillating new light on the American cultural landscape. Greene follows the fortunes of groups like the Gold Chain Bohemians, illuminating the development of an important segment of American popular music that fed the craze for international dance music. And even though old-time music declined in the 1960s, overtaken by rock and roll, a new Grammy for the polka was initiated in 1986. In its ebullience and vitality, the genre endures.
Author : Natalie Frankel Joffe
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 47,78 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Diet
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