| Songs of the Finnish Migration: A Bilingual Anthology Contributor(s): DuBois, Thomas A. (Editor), Cederström, B. Marcus (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0299327140 ISBN-13: 9780299327149 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnomusicology - History | United States - State & Local - Midwest(ia,il,in,ks,mi,mn,mo,nd,ne,oh,sd,wi - History | Europe - Scandinavia |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 7" W x 9.9" (1.40 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Songs of the Finnish Migration presents music, lyrics, and chords for more than eighty Finnish-language immigrant songs, alongside singable English translations and detailed notes on Finnish migration history and music making in the New World. At times boisterous and confident, wry and irreverent, or impassioned and sorrowful, Finnish immigrant songs provide a vivid and imaginative portrayal of the momentous process of migration that forever changed Finnish and Finnish American society. The current volume expands upon Simo Westerholm's 1983 groundbreaking collection Reisaavaisen laulu Amerikkaan: Siirtolaislauluja, which drew from archival sources, manuscripts, sound recordings, and a wide array of published songbooks to recover the musical culture of the more than 300,000 Finnish immigrants who traveled to North America to try their luck in the New World. |