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Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko Volume 11
by Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko Volume 11
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A quixotic figure, Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk culture and modern media in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine's struggle for independence to North American audiences. From his base in New York City, he built a network of folk dance schools and produced musical spectacles to help Ukrainian immigrants sustain their identity. His feature-length Ukrainian language films made in the 1930s with Hollywood director Edgar G. Ulmer, the "king of ethnic and B movies," were shown throughout North America.
Orest T. Martynowych's The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause is a fascinating portrait how culture can become a political tool in a diaspora community.
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- University of Manitoba Pr Brand
- Sep 5, 2014 Pub Date:
- 9780887557682 ISBN-13:
- 0887557686 ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9 in * 0.6 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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