Bohemia on Records: Early Czech Sound Recordings in the United States

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Bohemia on Records: Early Czech Sound Recordings in the United States

Original language description

Bohemia on Records offers readers the first comprehensive overview of recordings produced by American gramophone companies for a growing community of Czech immigrants in the US during the first half of the twentieth century. Early gramophone companies categorized such productions as ethnic recordings, and in this case, &quot;Bohemian&quot; or later &quot;Czech&quot; or &quot;Czecho-Slovak&quot; records. In his introductory essay, R. Spottswood, eminent American discographer and leading researcher of early &quot;ethnic&quot; recordings, describes the circumstances that led the major American gramophone companies to publish recordings intended for immigrants in the USA. Given that these new arrivals to America - at least in the first generation - had little command of English, they represented a significant segment of the market for sound reproducing machines: gramophones and phonographs. The work begins with profiles of several of the most significant personalities among those Czech immigrants, individuals who made their mark as businessmen in the music industry soon after coming to the US. These include publishers of both printed music and phonograph cylinders/records that were intended for Czech or more general audiences. The main section of the book presents a discography of sound recordings made by Czech immigrant ensembles and performers published on phonograph cylinders and shellac records between 1902 and the late 1940s in ethnic series offered by the American record companies. We also cover sound recordings made in the United States by visiting Czech artists and politicians, as well as those by orchestras, chamber ensembles, and opera singers who were permanently residing in the US. These were sold outside the ethnic series. The volume concludes with documentary illustrations accompanied by scholarly text, along with a selection of labels from recordings made by performers discussed earlier.

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Czech description

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Type

B - Specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

ISBN

978-80-7036-565-6

Number of pages

115

Publisher name

Národní muzeum

Place of publication

Praha

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