Land Without Nightingales : Music in the Making of German-America

by Bohlman, Philip V.; Holzapfel, Otto; Bohlman, Philip V.

• ISBN13: 9780924119040
• ISBN10: 0924119047
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Despite the laments of some nineteenth-century German immigrants that America was a land bereft of poetry and song, a ''land without nightingales,'' the history of German-American music is a rich one. This book, with its companion CD, explores the wide variety of musical expression among German-speaking immigrants to America and their descendants.

Author Biography

Philip V. Bohlman teaches ethnomusicology and Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. Otto Holzapfel of the German Folk-Song Archive, Freiburg, Germany.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. xi
CD Notes and Commentary	p. xii
The Musical Culture of German-Americans: Views from Different Sides of the Hyphen	p. 1
Making German-America
Ethnicity and Musical Culture among the German Catholics of the Sauk, 1854-1920	p. 31
Glimpses of an Ethnic Mentality: Six German-Swiss Texts of Migration-Related Folk Songs	p. 72
Music-Related Commerce in Some Moravian Accounts	p. 99
Religion
Lutheran Hymnody and Networks in the Eighteenth Century	p. 113
Ethnic Musics/Religious Identities: Toward an Historiography of German-American Sacred Music	p. 127
Musical Life among the Canadian Hutterites	p. 159
Modern Identities
The German Concertina in the Upper Midwest	p. 191
"Ein Prosit der Gemutlichkeit": The Traditionalization Process in a German-American Singing Society	p. 233
Burgenland-American Music and the "Ethnic Mainstream"	p. 258
Index	p. 294
Song Index	p. 300
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