Irish-American Folklore Extant in New England
Author : Eileen Moore Quinn
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Folklore
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Author : Eileen Moore Quinn
Publisher :
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 27,78 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Folklore
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Author : Cian T. McMahon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1040047165
This volume gathers over 40 world-class scholars to explore the dynamics that have shaped the Irish experience in America from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the early 1600s to the present, over 10 million Irish people emigrated to various points around the globe. Of them, more than six million settled in what we now call the United States of America. Some were emigrants, some were exiles, and some were refugees—but they all brought with them habits, ideas, and beliefs from Ireland, which played a role in shaping their new home. Organized chronologically, the chapters in this volume offer a cogent blend of historical perspectives from the pens of some of the world’s leading scholars. Each section explores multiple themes including gender, race, identity, class, work, religion, and politics. This book also offers essays that examine the literary and/or artistic production of each era. These studies investigate not only how Irish America saw itself or, in turn, was seen, but also how the historical moment influenced cultural representation. It demonstrates the ways in which Irish Americans have connected with other groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and sets “Irish America” in the context of the global Irish diaspora. This book will be of value to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as instructors and scholars interested in American History, Immigration History, Irish Studies, and Ethnic Studies more broadly.
Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 24,85 MB
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135578788
Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority
Author : John Russell Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 17,7 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752587490
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Illustrating the history and geography of north and south America, and the west Indies, altogether forming the most extensive collection ever offered for sale.
Author : Andrew Sanders
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1786940442
This book examines the role of the United States of America in the Northern Ireland conflict and peace process. Featuring interviews with former government figures from the US, UK, and Ireland, it analyses the complicated diplomatic relationship between the three countries during the years of violence.
Author : O. Rich
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 23,95 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Kip Lornell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1617032662
Exploring American Folk Music: Ethnic, Grassroots, and Regional Traditions in the United States reflects the fascinating diversity of regional and grassroots music in the United States. The book covers the diverse strains of American folk music—Latin, Native American, African, French-Canadian, British, and Cajun—and offers a chronology of the development of folk music in the United States. The book is divided into discrete chapters covering topics as seemingly disparate as sacred harp singing, conjunto music, the folk revival, blues, and ballad singing. It is among the few textbooks in American music that recognizes the importance and contributions of Native Americans as well as those who live, sing, and perform music along our borderlands, from the French-speaking citizens in northern Vermont to the extensive Hispanic population living north of the Rio Grande River, recognizing and reflecting the increasing importance of the varied Latino traditions that have informed our folk music since the founding of the United States. Another chapter includes detailed information about the roots of hip-hop, and this updated edition of the book features a new chapter on urban folk music, exploring traditions in our cities, with a case study focusing on Washington, D.C. Exploring American Folk Music also introduces you to such important figures in American music as Bob Wills, Lydia Mendoza, Bob Dylan, and Muddy Waters, who helped shape what America sounds like in the twenty-first century. It also features new sections at the end of each chapter with up-to-date recommendations for “Suggested Listening,” “Suggested Reading,” and “Suggested Viewing.”
Author : John Russell Smith
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 1865
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Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 1835
Category : America
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Author : Donald MacRaild
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2019-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1526127873
People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.Wherever they went, the English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and and even sub-national, supra-regional groups like the Cornish, co-mingled, blended and blurred. Yet while they gradually integrated into new lives in far-flung places, British and Irish Isle emigrants often maintained elements of their distinctive national cultures, which is an important foundation of diasporas. Within this wider context, this volume seeks to explore the nature and characteristics of the British and Irish diasporas, stressing their varying origins and evolution, the developing attachments to them, and the differences in each nation’s recognition of their own diaspora. The volume thus offers the first integrated study of the formation of diasporas from the islands of Ireland and Britain, with a particular view to scrutinizing the similarities, differences, tensions and possibilities of this approach.