Books – Music

  • The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause

    Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko

    Orest T. Martynowych (Author)

    The colourful life of a charismatic champion of Ukrainian independence.

    Published October 2014 | Studies in Immigration and Culture, Biography, Ethnic Studies, History, Immigration, Music

  • Sounds of Ethnicity

    Listening to German North America, 1850 - 1914

    Barbara Lorenzkowski (Author)

    Sounds of Ethnicity takes us into the linguistic, cultural, and geographical borderlands of German North America in the Great Lakes region between 1850 and 1914. Drawing connections between immigrant groups in Buffalo, New York, and Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, Barbara Lorenzkowski examines the interactions of language and music — specifically German-language education, choral groups, and music festivals—and their roles in creating both an ethnic sense of self and opportunities for cultural exchanges at the local, ethnic, and transnational levels.

    Published May 2010 | Studies in Immigration and Culture, Ethnic Studies, History, Identity Studies, Immigration, Linguistics, Music

  • The Organ in Manitoba

    A History of the Instruments, the Builders, and the Players

    James B. Hartman (Author)

    Pipe organs were once a central (and sometimes hotly debated) part of Manitoba’s cultural life. The Organ in Manitoba portrays that history — the instruments, builders, players and critics — from the date of the earliest known installations to the 1990s, and includes information on musical organizations such as the Royal Canadian College of Organists.

    Published December 1997 | History, Music

  • Singing Mennonite

    Low German Songs Among the Mennonites

    Doreen Helen Klassen (Author)

    In this pioneering book, Doreen Helen Klassen explores a collection of Mennonite Low German songs and rhymes.

    Published January 1989 | Ethnic Studies, History, Mennonite Studies, Music, Religion

  • Music from Within

    A Biography of the Composer S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté

    Ferdinand Eckhardt (Author)

    A Biography of the Composer S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté

    Published January 1985 | Art & Architecture, Biography, Music