Prairie Bohemian

Author : Trevor W. Harrison
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781772120479

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Prairie Bohemian by Trevor W. Harrison Pdf

"If anything, he was an anti-celebrity. He did not conform to society's ideal of a refined classical musician. He did not even conform to the rhinestone image of a country music star. Nor did he care to. He was not merely a bohemian; he was an ?ber-Bohemian." Until his death in 1982, Edmonton luthier and composer Frank Gay built guitars for several famous musicians, including country stars Johnny Cash, Don Gibson, Webb Pierce, and Hank Snow. He entranced listeners with his singular talent on guitar and lute, and was well known within the music industry. Very few recordings of his work exist, and the sparse accounts of his life and work raise more questions than they answer. In uncovering the story of this private yet charming and often troubled man, Trevor Harrison does a tremendous service to Canadian culture and western music history. Musicians and instrument makers, as well as those interested in western Canadian history or Edmonton's colourful past, will be fascinated by this biography of western Canadian luthier, musician, and guitar virtuoso Frank Gay.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89065720484

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Bohemian Ancestors and Their Descendants by Anonim Pdf

Author : Trevor W. Harrison
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781772120660

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Prairie Bohemian by Trevor W. Harrison Pdf

Gay never recorded an album, never won a Juno. His music existed in the moment, appreciated by the few who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. For the rest of us, those late-night jam sessions in a shack in an alley on the bad side of Edmonton never happened. We never got to hear him play the Cole Porter songs he loved with Carlos Montoya, never got to watch the ashes build dangerously on the end of his menthol cigarette. And when Frank Gay died, only the guitar players gently wept. — Shelley Youngblut Until his death in 1982, Edmonton luthier and guitarist Frank Gay built guitars for several famous musicians, including country stars Johnny Cash, Don Gibson, Webb Pierce, and Hank Snow. He captivated listeners with his singular talent on guitar and other instruments, and was well known within the music industry. Trevor Harrison’s detective work uncovers the story of this private, charming, and bohemian man, doing a tremendous service to Canadian culture and music history. Harrison pieces together Frank Gay’s life through interviews with people who knew him and saw him play. Very few recordings of him playing exist, and the sparse accounts of Gay’s life and work raise more questions than they answer. Musicians and instrument makers, as well as those interested in Canadian music or Edmonton’s colourful past, will be fascinated by this biography of western Canadian luthier, musician, and guitar virtuoso Frank Gay.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Congregational churches
ISBN : HARVARD:AH3J2Q

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The Congregational Year-book by Anonim Pdf

Author : Frances Barton,John K. Novak
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806178493

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Czech Songs in Texas by Frances Barton,John K. Novak Pdf

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. Czech Songs in Texas includes sixty-one songs, mostly polkas and waltzes. The songs themselves are beloved heirlooms ranging from ceremonial music with origins in Moravian wedding traditions to exuberant polkas celebrating the pleasures of life. For each song, the book provides music notation and Czech lyrics with English translation. An essay explores the song’s European roots, its American evolution, and the meaning of its lyrics and lists notable performances and recordings. In addition to the songs and essays, Frances Barton provides a chapter on the role of music in the Texas Czech ethnic community, and John K. Novak surveys Czech folk and popular music in its European home. The book both documents a specific musical inheritance and serves as a handbook for learning about a culture through its songs. As folklorist and polka historian James P. Leary writes in his foreword, “Barton and Novak take us on a poetic, historical, and ethnographic excursion deep into a community’s expressive heartland. Their Czech Songs in Texas just might be the finest extant annotated anthology of any American immigrant/ethnic group's regional song tradition.”

Author : Fifi O'Neill
Publisher : CICO Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1782497188

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Global Bohemian by Fifi O'Neill Pdf

In Global Bohemian, Fifi O’Neill shows how you can bring gypset style into your home, fusing the colorful, eccentric style of bohemian living with inspirations from far-flung places. Why settle for one style when you can indulge your love of several? Whether exuberant or subtle, eclectic or sophisticated, bohemian style welcomes a freethinking approach to decorating. Fifi O’Neill shows you how to combine originality, creative energy, whimsy, and a love of travel to create adventurous, authentic, and enchanting interiors. Find inspiration for making your home truly unique by mixing pieces with traditional style alongside finds from your travels. Whether you want to transform understated spaces by adding intriguing nomadic elements, incorporating tropical and beach motifs, or hints of glamour, Global Bohemian offers ample and affordable decorative options and celebrates self-expression, inspiration, passion, and personal flair.

Author : Richard E. Meyer
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0879726008

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Ethnicity and the American Cemetery by Richard E. Meyer Pdf

Contributing authors illustrate the book's interdisciplinary focus, with representation from, among others, the fields of folklore, cultural history, historical archeology landscape architecture, and philosophy, heavily illustrated, the volume also features an introductory essay by editor Richard E. Meyer and an extensive annotated bibliography.

Author : Mary I. Ingraham,Robert C. Rival
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781772125030

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Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth by Mary I. Ingraham,Robert C. Rival Pdf

Malcolm Forsyth (1936–2011) was a musical legend: a much-loved composer, performer, teacher, and mentor. Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth presents a captivating and approachable portrait of one of Canada’s finest modern composers. Readers will discover both public and private sides to the man and gain fresh insights from critical assessments of a broad range of Forsyth’s compositions, his continuing popular appreciation, and his lasting influence on the next generation of musicians and music scholars. Drawing from the perspectives of leading scholars, composers, and musicians, as well as on those of family, friends, students, and colleagues, Reflections on Malcolm Forsyth honours the rich life and cultural significance of this exceptional creative mind. It is important reading for music students and researchers, professional performers, and anyone who loves contemporary music. Contributors: Tommy Banks, Allan Gordon Bell, Nora Bumanis, Robin Elliott, Amanda Forsyth, Valerie Forsyth, Allan Gilliland, Carl Hare, Mary I. Ingraham, Edward Jurkowski, Ryan McClelland, John McPherson, Fordyce C. (Duke) Pier, Roxane Prevost, Kathy Primos, Tanya Prochazka, Leonard Ratzlaff, Rayfield Rideout, Robert C. Rival, Julia Shaw, Dale Sorensen, Christopher Taylor

Author : United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : MSU:31293010898942

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Immigrants in Industries by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) Pdf

Author : United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : HARVARD:32044051141257

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Imigrants in industries (in twenty-five parts) by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : NYPL:33433075933642

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Immigrants in industries by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : UCD:31175010154808

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Reports of the Immigration Commission: Immigrants in industries (in twenty-five parts) by United States. Immigration Commission (1907-1910) Pdf

Author : Wisam Abughosh Chaleila
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000328189

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Racism and Xenophobia in Early Twentieth-Century American Fiction by Wisam Abughosh Chaleila Pdf

"The Melting Pot," "The Land of The Free," "The Land of Opportunity." These tropes or nicknames apparently reflect the freedom and open-armed welcome that the United States of America offers. However, the chronicles of history do not complement that image. These historical happenings have not often been brought into the focus of Modernist literary criticism, though their existence in the record is clear. This book aims to discuss these chronicles, displaying in great detail the underpinnings and subtle references of racism and xenophobia embedded so deeply in both fictional and real personas, whether they are characters, writers, legislators, or the common people. In the main chapters, literary works are dissected so as to underline the intolerance hidden behind words of righteousness and blind trust, as if such is the norm. Though history is taught, it is not so thoroughly examined. To our misfortune, we naively think that bigoted ideas are not a thing we could become afflicted with. They are antiques from the past – yet they possessed many hundreds of people and they surround us still. Since we’ve experienced very little change, it seems discipline is necessary to truly attempt to be rid of these ideas.

Author : Klaus Martens
Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canada
ISBN : 3826026365

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The Canadian Alternative by Klaus Martens Pdf

Author : Miloslav Rechcigl Jr.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781524620691

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Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography by Miloslav Rechcigl Jr. Pdf

As the Czech ambassador to the United States, H. E. Petr Gandalovic noted in his foreword to this book that Mla Rechcgl has written a monumental work representing a culmination of his life achievement as a historian of Czech America. The Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech American Biography is a unique and unparalleled publication. The enormity of this undertaking is reflected in the fact that it covers a universe, starting a few decades after the discovery of the New World, through the escapades and significant contributions of Bohemian Jesuits and Moravian brethren in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the mass migration of the Czechs after the revolutionary year of 1848, and up to the early years of the twentieth century and the influx of refugees from Nazism and communism. The encyclopedia has been planned as a representative, a comprehensive and authoritative reference tool, encompassing over 7,500 biographies. This prodigious and unparalleled encyclopedic vade mecum, reflecting enduring contributions of notable Americans with Czech roots, is not only an invaluable tool for all researchers and students of Czech American history but is also a carte blanche for the Czech Republic, which considers Czech Americans as their own and as a part of its magnificent cultural history.