A Singing Ambivalence A Singing Ambivalence

A Singing Ambivalence

American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830-1930

Victor R. Greene
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Publisher Description

This is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups?Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans?responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Author Victor Greene surveys an extensive body of songs that comment on the problems immigrants faced and reveal the wide range of responses the newcomers made to the radical changes to their lives.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2011
11 April
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
215
Pages
PUBLISHER
Kent State University Press
SIZE
1.2
MB

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