A Sound of Strangers: Musical Culture, Acculturation and the Post-Civil War Ethnic America

by Nicholas E. Tawa

Tawa examines the musical traditions brought to America by the peasants and urban workers of southern Italy, the Middle East , and eastern Europe, and by the Chinese, Japanese, and East European Jews, and describes their survival within the American context, in often hostile surroundings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810815044
• ISBN13: 9780810815049
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.7"