A Sound of Strangers: Musical Culture, Acculturation and the Post-Civil War Ethnic America

by Nicholas E. Tawa

Tawa examines the musical traditions brought to America by the peasants and urban workers of southern Italy, the Middle East , and eastern Europe, and by the Chinese, Japanese, and East European Jews, and describes their survival within the American context, in often hostile surroundings.

318 pages, Hardcover

First published May 30, 1995