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A passion for polka : old-time ethnic music in America
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- Victor Greene
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- English
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1992]
- ©1992
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- xi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520911725, 9780520911727, 9780520075849, 0520075846, 0585214239, 9780585214238
- OCLC
- on1198929640, ocm25246359, on1409031560
- Forms part of: Wisconsin Music Archives.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Preface -- Introduction -- Ethnic music and American band music -- Italian bands and American popular music -- The rise of the ethnic music business, 1900-1920 -- Record companies discover the ethnic groups, 1900-1930 -- Immigrant entertainers fashion their audience -- Hard times and ethnic old-time in the crossover age, 1930-1940 -- Regional crossover bands, I: Texas and Minnesota, 1930-1950 -- Regional crossover bands, II: Wisconsin and Cleveland, 1930-1950 -- Americanized Scandinavian and Polish Bands: New York and the East, 1930-1960 -- Ethnic music becomes popular music, 1940-1960 -- Frankie Yankovic: The Polka King when polka was king -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliographic essay