Author: Spyros D. OrfanosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Reading Greek America
Author: Spyros D. OrfanosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Greek for Reading
Author: Gerda M. SeligsonPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472082667
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A highly innovative approach to Classical Greek for beginning students
Greek Music in America
Author: Tina BucuvalasPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496819748
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Winner of the 2019 Vasiliki Karagiannaki Prize for the Best Edited Volume in Modern Greek Studies Contributions by Tina Bucuvalas, Anna Caraveli, Aydin Chaloupka, Sotirios (Sam) Chianis, Frank Desby, Stavros K. Frangos, Stathis Gauntlett, Joseph G. Graziosi, Gail Holst-Warhaft, Michael G. Kaloyanides, Panayotis League, Roderick Conway Morris, National Endowment for the Arts/National Heritage Fellows, Nick Pappas, Meletios Pouliopoulos, Anthony Shay, David Soffa, Dick Spottswood, Jim Stoynoff, and Anna Lomax Wood Despite a substantial artistic legacy, there has never been a book devoted to Greek music in America until now. Those seeking to learn about this vibrant and exciting music were forced to seek out individual essays, often published in obscure or ephemeral sources. This volume provides a singular platform for understanding the scope, practice, and development of Greek music in America through essays and profiles written by principal scholars in the field. Greece developed a rich variety of traditional, popular, and art music that diasporic Greeks brought with them to America. In Greek American communities, music was and continues to be an essential component of most social activities. Music links the past to the present, the distant to the near, and bonds the community with an embrace of memories and narrative. From 1896 to 1942, more than a thousand Greek recordings in many genres were made in the United States, and thousands more have appeared since then. These encompass not only Greek traditional music from all regions, but also emerging urban genres, stylistic changes, and new songs of social commentary. Greek Music in America includes essays on all of these topics as well as history and genre, places and venues, the recording business, and profiles of individual musicians. This book is required reading for anyone who cares about Greek music in America, whether scholar, fan, or performer.
My Detroit: Growing Up Greek and American in Motor City
Author: Dan GeorgakasPublisher: Smyrna Press
ISBN: 9781625361325
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
My Detroit is a unique blend of traditional ethnic memoir and a historian's account of the decline and fall of America's most populous industrial city. The interaction of American culture and ethnic consciousness is evident on almost every page. Archbishop Iakovos marches with Martin Luther King, Maria Callas becomes as famous as Marilyn Monroe. Greek diners become neighborhood hangouts. The reader is taken in ever widening circles from the particulars of Greek American culture to the core of an embattled Motor City awash in racism and corruption.
Austin Lunch
Author: Constance M. ConstantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
This memoire amusingly relates the story of a family living through the shock of immigration and the struggles of the Great Depression. Mama defies convention in 1931 and goes to work in her husband's restaurant, the Austin Lunch.Located on Chicago's historic but seamy Near West Side, Papa's restaurant becomes an uncertain haven for their two children, Helen and Nicky. Ironically, the restaurant with its parade of assorted inner city characters becomes a proving ground for the children to observe the energy, integrity and courage of their hard working parents during the rough thirties and early forties.The book's authentic sense of time and place warmly records a personal slice of Twentieth Century history through the honest eyes of childhood.
A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book 1
Author: Raymond V. SchoderPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1585107042
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A Reading Course in Homeric Greek, Book One, Third Edition is a revised edition of the well respected text by Frs. Schoder and Horrigan. This text provides an introduction to Ancient Greek language as found in the Greek of Homer. Covering 120 lessons, readings from Homer begin after the first 10 lessons in the book. Honor work, appendices, and vocabularies are included, along with review exercises for each chapter with answers.
A Place for Us
Author: Nicholas GagePublisher:
ISBN: 9780552994385
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Perspective
Author: Peter ManouselisPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578718477
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Pomegranate Seeds
Author: Dean KostosPublisher:
ISBN: 0977461041
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
From the Publisher: This volume is the first-ever collection of poems in English by 49 prominent Greek-American poets from throughout the United States. The poems cover a variety of topics and styles.
Reading Greek
Author: Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek CoursePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521698510
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Second edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. This volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills. The texts and numerous illustrations also provide a good introduction to Greek culture.