The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko
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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The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko
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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ISBN-13: | 9780887557682 |
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Publisher: | University of Manitoba Press |
Publication date: | 09/05/2014 |
Series: | ISSN , #11 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 248 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d) |
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