Czech Songs in Texas: Volume 7

by John K. Novak and Frances Barton

On any weekend in Texas, Czech polka music enlivens dance halls and drinking establishments as well as outdoor church picnics and festivals. The songs heard at these venues are the living music of an ethnic community created by immigrants who started arriving in Central Texas in the mid-nineteenth century from what is now the Czech Republic. Today, the members of this community speak English but their songs are still sung in Czech.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806168870
• ISBN13: 9780806168876
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 2.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.4"