Author: Einar Haugen
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299132507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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A child prodigy, Bull was admitted to the Bergen orchestra as first violin at the age of eight. He soon was idolized on both sides of the Atlantic for his superb improvisations and his ability to play the violin polyphonically. Though he was hailed as "the Paganini of the North," some critics labeled him a charlatan for his apparently magic tricks on the violin. Bull counted among his friends the great names of his era: Schumann and Lizst, Emerson and Wagner. Longfellow and Hans Christian Andersen modeled characters on him, and he was in part the inspiration for Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Although he spent most of his adult life abroad, Bull was a tireless promoter of Norwegian art and culture. His concert improvisations were rooted in his native slåtter (folkdance tunes), and he modified his own instrument using the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle as a model. By mid-century, Bull realized his dream of establishing a national theater in Bergen. He gave Henrik Ibsen a start in theater management, employed the poet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and promoted the music of Edvard Grieg. His attempt to establish a Norwegian colony, "Oleana," in the United States, however, failed through poor management. The words of the poet Aasmund Vinje, "That surely would be a man to write a book about," have been taken to heart by authors Einar Haugen and Camilla Cai. In addition to providing the first comprehensive listing of Bull's works (with full descriptions of all known sources), analyses of his compositions and their influences, and reviews of his performances, this biography gives life once again to a fascinating and flamboyant figure.
Author: Sara Chapman Thorp Bull
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Category : Violin
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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Author: Department of English University of Virginia Eric Lott Associate Professor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199762244
Category : Minstrel shows
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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For over two centuries, America has celebrated the very black culture it attempts to control and repress, and nowhere is this phenomenon more apparent than in the strange practice of blackface performance. Born of extreme racial and class conflicts, the blackface minstrel show sometimes usefully intensified them. Based on the appropriation of black dialect, music, and dance, minstrelsy at once applauded and lampooned black culture, ironically contributing to a "blackening of America." Drawing on recent research in cultural studies and social history, Eric Lott examines the role of the blackface minstrel show in the political struggles of the years leading up to the Civil War. Reading minstrel music, lyrics, jokes, burlesque skits, and illustrations in tandem with working-class racial ideologies and the sex/gender system, Love and Theft argues that blackface minstrelsy both embodied and disrupted the racial tendencies of its largely white, male, working-class audiences. Underwritten by envy as well as repulsion, sympathetic identification as well as fear--a dialectic of "love and theft"--the minstrel show continually transgressed the color line even as it enabled the formation of a self-consciously white working class. Lott exposes minstrelsy as a signifier for multiple breaches: the rift between high and low cultures, the commodification of the dispossessed by the empowered, the attraction mixed with guilt of whites caught in the act of cultural thievery.
Author: William L. Slout
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 089370458X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Includes the seminal "Early History of Negro Minstrelsy," by Col. T. Allston Brown, together with pen-and-ink portraits of the major minstrels, and a comprehensive index.
Author: Erling Grönland
Publisher: [Oslo] : Norwegian Universities Press
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Category : Norway
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Author: Eric Lott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195320557
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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This new edition of Eric Lott's classic cultural history features a new foreword by Greil Marcus and afterword by the author.
Author: Norwegian-American Historical Association
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Category : Norwegians
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Author: John Knowles Paine
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Category : Instrumental music
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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