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Book Title
Czech Songs in Texas
Publication Name
Czech Songs in Texas
Title
Czech Songs in Texas
Author
John K. Novak, Frances Barton
Contributor
James P. Leary (Foreword by)
Format
Hardcover
EAN
9780806168876
ISBN
9780806168876
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Genre
Music, History
Topic
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, United States / 19th Century, Ethnic
Release Year
2021
Release Date
30/07/2021
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.5in
Item Length
11in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Series
American Popular Music Series
Publication Year
2021
Features
New Edition
Item Width
8.5in
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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On any weekend in Texas, Czech polka music enlivens dance halls and drinking establishments as well as outdoor church picnics and festivals. The songs heard at these venues are the living music of an ethnic community created by immigrants who started arriving in Central Texas in the mid-nineteenth century from what is now the Czech Republic. Today, the members of this community speak English but their songs are still sung in Czech. Czech Songs in Texas includes sixty-one songs, mostly polkas and waltzes. The songs themselves are beloved heirlooms ranging from ceremonial music with origins in Moravian wedding traditions to exuberant polkas celebrating the pleasures of life. For each song, the book provides music notation and Czech lyrics with English translation. An essay explores the song's European roots, its American evolution, and the meaning of its lyrics and lists notable performances and recordings. In addition to the songs and essays, Frances Barton provides a chapter on the role of music in the Texas Czech ethnic community, and John K. Novak surveys Czech folk and popular music in its European home. The book both documents a specific musical inheritance and serves as a handbook for learning about a culture through its songs. As folklorist and polka historian James P. Leary writes in his foreword, "Barton and Novak take us on a poetic, historical, and ethnographic excursion deep into a community's expressive heartland. Their Czech Songs in Texas just might be the finest extant annotated anthology of any American immigrant/ethnic group's regional song tradition."

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Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-10
0806168870
ISBN-13
9780806168876
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5050084493

Product Key Features

Book Title
Czech Songs in Texas
Author
John K. Novak, Frances Barton
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Features
New Edition
Topic
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, United States / 19th Century, Ethnic
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Music, History
Number of Pages
256 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
11in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
8.5in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
7
Lc Classification Number
Ml3560.C93b37 2021
Edition Description
New Edition
Reviews
"A well-documented and refreshing reminder of the heterogeneity of Texas's musical styles, Czech Songs in Texas offers a clear exposition of the way music and dance have fostered a sense of identity and cohesion in the state's Czech community. I am impressed by how much Czech music has helped to shape the making of the music I love. Just ask Willie Nelson!"-- Bill C. Malone , coauthor of Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts: The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story, "What a fascinating and delightfully worthwhile read! I've been playing Texas Czech polkas and waltzes for decades, and Barton and Novak filled in many important blanks for me. This book contains an essential history lesson for fans of Texas roots music."-- Carl Finch , of the band Brave Combo, "A well-documented and refreshing reminder of the heterogeneity of Texas's musical styles,Czech Songs in Texas offers a clear exposition of the way music and dance have fostered a sense of identity and cohesion in the state's Czech community. I am impressed by how much Czech music has helped to shape the making of the music I love. Just ask Willie Nelson!"-- Bill C. Malone , coauthor of Nashville's Songwriting Sweethearts: The Boudleaux and Felice Bryant Story, "Czech Songs in Texas is the tell-all, end-all comprehensive volume on Czech music and culturein Texas, including the true lyrics, in both Czech and English, and the history of your favorite Czech polkas and waltzes, along with the multiple bands that performed and recorded them."-- Gary E. McKee , Editor and photojournalist of Texas Polka News and Texas dance hall historian, "Czech Songs in Texas is the tell-all, end-all comprehensive volume on Czech music and culture in Texas, including the true lyrics, in both Czech and English, and the history of your favorite Czech polkas and waltzes, along with the multiple bands that performed and recorded them."-- Gary E. McKee , Editor and photojournalist of Texas Polka News and Texas dance hall historian
Lccn
2020-054663
Dewey Decimal
782.42162/91860764
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
American Popular Music Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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