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Czech Songs in Texas (Hardcover)
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Czech Songs in Texas (Hardcover)
Series: American Popular Music Series
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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 the Czech lyrics are set side-by-side with
English translation. Then, 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. Novok 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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