Land without nightingales : music in the making of German-America / edited by Philip V. Bohlman and Otto Holzapfel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bohlman, Philip V., 1952-

Holzapfel, Otto.

Series:

Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies.

Studies of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German Americans--Music--History and criticism.

German Americans.

Folk music--United States--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

xix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.).

Place of Publication:

Madison, WI : Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, ©2002.

Summary:

CD contains: Musical selections including: Traditional soundprints; Choral singing and social music making; Viennese urban traditions; Sacred traditions; Mixed languages/Mixed traditions; Polka and dance; Concertina traditions; Burgenland music from the Polka Belt.

Contents:

The musical culture of German-Americans: views from different sides of the hyphen / Otto Holzapfel and Philip V. Bohlman

Ethnicity and musical culture among the German Catholics of the Sauk, 1854-1920 / Kathleen Neils Conzen

Glimpses of an ethnic mentality: six German-Swiss texts of migration-related folk songs / Leo Schelbert

Music-related commerce in some Moravian accounts / Laurence Libin

Lutheran hymnody and networks in the eighteenth century / A. Gregg Roeber

Ethnic musics/religious identities: toward an historiography of German-American sacred music / Philip V. Bohlman

Musical life among the Canadian Hutterites / Helmut Wulz

The German concertina in the Upper Midwest / James P. Leary

"Ein Prosit der Gemütlichkeit": the traditionalization process in a German-American singing society / Alan R. Burdette

Burgenland-American music and the "ethnic mainstream" / Rudolf Pietsch.

1. The Musical Culture of German-Americans: Views from Different Sides of the Hyphen / Otto Holzapfel, Philip V. Bohlman 1

I Making German-America

2. Ethnicity and Musical Culture among the German Catholics of the Sauk, 1854-1920 / Kathleen Neils Conzen 31

3. Glimpses of an Ethnic Mentality: Six German-Swiss Texts of Migration-Related Folk Songs / Leo Schelbert 72

4. Music-Related Commerce in Some Moravian Accounts / Laurence Libin 99

II Religion

5. Lutheran Hymnody and Networks in the Eighteenth Century / A. Gregg Roeber 113

6. Ethnic Musics/Religious Identities: Toward an Historiography of German-American Sacred Music / Philip V. Bohlman 127

7. Musical Life among the Canadian Hutterites / Helmut Wulz 159

III Modern Identities

8. The German Concertina in the Upper Midwest / James P. Leary 191

9. "Ein Prosit der Gemutlichkeit": The Traditionalization Process in a German-American Singing Society / Alan R. Burdette 233

10. Burgenland-American Music and the "Ethnic Mainstream" / Rudolf Pietsch 258.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-293) and indexes.

ISBN:

0924119047

9780924119040

OCLC:

55586471