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    Online Resource
    Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press
    ISBN: 9781580466356
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 351 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Rochester studies in Central Europe
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.891/85073
    Keywords: Polish Singers Alliance of America / History ; Polish Singers Alliance of America ; Geschichte 1888-1998 ; Choral societies / United States ; Polish Americans / Ethnic identity ; Polen ; Gesangverein ; Poland / History ; Poland / Politics and government ; USA ; USA ; Polen ; Gesangverein ; Geschichte 1888-1998 ; Polish Singers Alliance of America ; Geschichte 1888-1998
    Abstract: A history of an American ethnic cultural organization and its close ties to the cause of Polish sovereignty. 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 thesucceeding 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. The Alliance was a federalism of amateur choirs. Its history cannot be understood without reference to the political fate of modern Poland over the last two centuries. This book situates the origins of the PSAA within the history ofPoland during the partitions, as well as its commitment to Polish independence and to the preservation and propagation of culture through song. As the children and grandchildren of the immigrants succeeded them, the Alliance subsequently evolved into an ethnic organization with numerous American-born individuals. After the recovery of Polish sovereignty, which by coincidence occurred in 1989 when the Alliance celebrated its centennial, questions arose about the role of such an ideological organization in the new political context. The late Stanislaus A. Blejwas was CSU University Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Mar 2023) , "To sing out the future of our beloved fatherland" -- Pieśni o ziemi naszej (songs of our land) -- The convention of "unhappy memory" -- Active duty -- Cultural care -- World War II and a new immigration -- The Czechlewski years : the ideological organization redefined -- Polish American choral culture -- "Let Poland be Poland!" -- Quo vadis Polish song in North America?
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