The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause

Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenko Volume 11
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-88755-768-2
Verlag: University of Manitoba Press

Buch, Englisch, 219 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Studies in Immigration and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martynowych, Orest T

Über Autor(innen)

Orest T. Martynowych is a historian at the Centre for Ukrainian-Canadian Studies, University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the author of Ukrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924.