The Polish Singers Alliance of America, 1888-1998
Subtitle: choral patriotism
By: Stanislaus A. Blejwas
Series: Rochester studies in Central Europe -- 6
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
Subjects: Polish Singers Alliance of America -- History; Choral societies -- United States; Polish Americans -- Ethnic identity; Poland -- History; Poland -- Politics and government
Description: "This book examines the history of the Polish Singers Alliance of America (PSAA) as an ideological organization. As a case study of an immigrant cultural organization that evolved demographically into an ethnic organization of the succeeding generations, it documents the extent to which the politics of the homeland engaged an immigrant and ethnic community over a century. This is a study of immigrant nationalism, as articulated by immigrant and ethnic singing societies. The survival of the Polish Singers Alliance as an ideological organization suggests considerations about the ability of an immigrant and ethnic culture to resist and to adapt to America's assimilative powers."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-343) and index
Table of contents: title: "To sing out the future of our beloved fatherland"; title: Pieśni o ziemi naszej (songs of our land); title: The convention of "unhappy memory"; title: Active duty?; title: Cultural care?; title: World War II and a new immigration; title: The Czechlewski years : the ideological organization redefined; title: Polish American choral culture; title: "Let Poland be Poland!"; title: Quo vadis Polish song in North America?