Search Results - "Midwest"

The tamburitza tradition : from the Balkans to the American Midwest / by March, Richard, 1946-

“…Languages and folklore of the Upper Midwest…”
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Rooted seven Midwest writers of place / by Pichaske, David R.

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Polkabilly how the Goose Island Ramblers redefined American folk music / by Leary, James P., 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Polkabilly : old time music in the Upper Midwest -- "Uncle Windy" Whitford -- "Smokey George" Gilbertsen -- Bruce Bollerud : The Hollandale wldcat -- Glen and Ann's -- Cannons and cannonballs.…”
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Sum of the parts the mathematics and politics of region, place, and writing / by Ryden, Kent C., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Let S = meaningful space: the mathematics of region and place -- Sets and unsettlement: region, power, and resistance in New England writing -- An incompleteness theorem of region: Stegner and the American West -- Faulkner and the American South -- Prime real estate: the Midwest, history, and regional identity -- Epilogue: null set-ecological regions and cultural regions.…”
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The ballad collectors of North America how gathering folksongs transformed academic thought and American identity /

Table of Contents: “…Spencer -- Franz Boas, the phonograph, and the Columbia School / Erika Brady -- Ballad collectors in the Ozarks / Norm Cohen -- Songcatchers in the West : cowboy songs ; Songcatchers in the West, other traditions / Guy Logsdon -- Folk song collectors in the Midwest / James P. Leary -- Ballad collectors in the Northeast / Nancy-Jean Ballard Seigel -- Four songcatchers in eastern Canada / Sheldon Posen -- The Lomaxes / Matt Barton -- Robert Winslow Gordon / Paul Stamler -- Collecting occupational songs / Dan Milner -- Commodification and revival / Paul Stamler.…”
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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / by Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.…”
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