Author: Robert A. Bjerke
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Category : Kewaunee County (Wis.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Author: Amy Shaw
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299328708
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Ole Hendricks was an immigrant both representative and exceptional—a true artistic talent who nevertheless lived a familiar immigrant experience. By day, he was a farmer. But at night, his fiddle lit up dance halls, bringing together all manner of neighbors in rural Minnesota. Each tune in his repertoire of waltzes, reels, polkas, quadrilles, and more were copied neatly into his commonplace book. Such tunebooks, popular during the nineteenth century, rarely survive and are often overlooked by folk scholars in favor of commercially produced recordings, published sheet music, or oral tradition. Based on extensive historical and genealogical research, Amy Shaw presents a grounded picture of a musician, his family, and his community in the Upper Midwest, revealing much about music and dance in the area. This notable contribution to regional music and folklore includes more than one hundred of Ole's dance tunes, transcribed into modern musical notation for the first time. Ole Hendricks and His Tunebook will be valuable to readers and scholars interested in ethnomusicology and the Norwegian American immigrant experience.

Author: Erik S. Reinert
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783083204
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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After his death Thorstein Veblen was hailed as ‘America’s Darwin and Marx’ and is normally portrayed as the perennial iconoclast. He severely criticised traditional economics and attempted to create an alternative approach based on a much more complex view of human beings. He is one of the most celebrated economists of our age and has been the inspiration for many books; the predatory version of capitalism we now again experience, the phenomenon of studying cultures of consumption and the darker sides of gilded ages can be traced back to Veblen. A conference in Veblen’s ancestral Norway marked the 150th anniversary of his birth. The aim of the conference was to consolidate Veblen scholarship and evaluate his relevance for the problems of today. This collection offers the results of that endeavour; it is a milestone of Vebleniana which assesses all the most salient aspects of his life and influence. Many of its contributors also push into uncharted territory, examining the man and his work from new and necessary perspectives hitherto ignored by scholarship.

Author: Theodore Christian Blegen
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Category : Minnesota literature
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Companion volume to Norwegian Migration to America, 1825-1860. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author: Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
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Category : Public utilities
Languages : en
Pages : 788

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Author: Norwegian-American Historical Association
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Author: Richard C. Madson
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Category : Gjerpen kirke (Skien, Norway)
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: Kathleen Stokker
Publisher: Borealis Book
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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This book brings home the stories and origins of the treasured customs which Norwegians use to celebrate the Christmas season. Norwegian immigrants carried with them centuries-old folk tradition, which they held especially dear at Christmas time, remembering family members left behind. But the US, the immigrants and their descendants met the newly evolving traditions of the commercial American Christmas, a powerful homogenising force in a nation of immigrants. Stokker describes and traces the development of folkways on both side of the ocean, from their origins to their practice today. With fascinating details, with scores of accounts of ancient and modern Christmases, with recipes and photographs, this book reminds Norwegians and Norwegian Americans of their connections to each other and explains how their celebrations differ on this joyous family holiday.

Author: Frederick Arthur Stare
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Category : Canned foods industry
Languages : en
Pages : 640

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Author: Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commission
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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