TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lorenzkowski,Barbara
TI  - Sounds of ethnicity: listening to German North America, 1850-1914 
T2  - Studies in immigration and culture series,
SN  - 9780887553011
AV  - F1035 .S686 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Winnipeg [Man.
PB  - University of Manitoba Press
KW  - German Americans
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - North America
KW  - Great Lakes Region (North America)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - German Canadians
KW  - Music
KW  - Languages
KW  - Great Lakes Region
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Part I Language Matters --; 1 Territories of Translation: Language and Identity in the Popular Press --; 2 Languages of Ethnicity: Teaching German at Waterloo County's Schools --; 3 Speaking Modern: The Culture of the German-Language Classroom in Buffalo, New York --; Part II Music Matters --; 4 Tunes of Community, Melodies of Race: The Buffalo Singers' Festival, 1860 --; 5 Germania in Amerika: Nation and Ethnicity at the German Peace Jubilees, 1871 --; 6 Soundscapes of Identity: Singing Ethnicity in the Great Lakes Region, 1874-1912 --; 7 Making a Musical Public: Myth, Music, and Modernity, 1883-1901 --; Coda; 2; b
N2  - "Lorenzkowski's focus on language and sound provides a very creative approach to the history of immigration and identity in Canada. While her juxtaposition and linkage of German immigrants in the US and Canada make a major contribution to the field, the attention she pays to language and soundscapes makes this a serious advance in the art of research in the field "--Cecilia Morgan Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto; 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. She exposes the tensions between the self-declared ethnic leadership that extolled the virtues of the German mother tongue as preserver of ethnic identity and gateway to scholarship and high culture, and the hybrid realities of German North America where the lives of migrants were shaped by two languages, English and German. Theirs was a song not of cultural purity, but of cultural fusion that gave meaning to the way German migrants made a home for themselves in North America. Written in lively and elegant prose, Sounds of Ethnicity is a new and exciting approach to the history of immigration and identity in North America. --Book Jacket
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