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Gwara o gwarze
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Highlander Polish-English, English-Highlander Polish Dictionary
The geographic isolation of Podhale, the Tatra Mountain region in Southern Poland, contributed to the preservation of the Polish language of those days when all Slavic languages, coming from the same source, differed less from each other. Dictionary with an appendix of some sayings and riddles.
Podhale
This guide takes the visitor to this spectacularly beautiful area that is a possible site for the 2006 Olympics, and also provides a comprehensive survey of the region's history, geography, architecture, music and folk art, costumes, cuisine, legends and customs as well as fishing, hiking, mountain climbing and other leisure activities. The author organises the main attractions of the area in tours, which are perfect diversions for Polish descendants to visit their native land. Photographs, illustrations, and line drawings along with maps and useful appendices portray the historical development of the region.
Making Music in the Polish Tatras
Challenging myths that mountain isolation and ancient folk customs defined the music culture of the Polish Tatras, Timothy J. Cooley shows that intensive contact with tourists and their more academic kin, ethnographers, since the late 19th century helped shape both the ethnic group known as Górale (highlanders) and the music that they perform. Making Music in the Polish Tatras reveals how the historically related practices of tourism and ethnography actually created the very objects of tourist and ethnographic interest in what has become the popular resort region of Zakopane. This lively book introduces readers to Górale musicians, their present-day lives and music making, and how they nav...
Music in the American Diasporic Wedding
Music in the American Diasporic Wedding explores the complex cultural adaptations, preservations, and fusions that occur in weddings between couples and families of diverse origins. Discussing weddings as a site of negotiations between generations, traditions, and religions, the essays gathered here argue that music is the mediating force between the young and the old, ritual and entertainment, and immigrant lore and assimilation. The contributors examine such colorful integrations as klezmer-tinged Mandarin tunes at a Jewish and Taiwanese American wedding, a wedding services industry in Chicago's South Asian community featuring a diversity of wedding music options, and Puerto Rican cultural activists dancing down the aisles of New York's St. Cecilia's church to the thunder of drums and maracas and rapping their marriage vows. These essays show us what wedding music and performance tell us about complex multiethnic diasporic identities and remind us that how we listen to and celebrate otherness defines who we are.
