The Showman And The Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film, And The Life Of Vasile Avramenko (Studies In Immigration And Culture, 11) (Volume 11)

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 of how culture can become a political tool in an immigrant community.

• | Author: Orest T. Martynowych
• | Publisher: University Of Manitoba Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 05, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 248 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0887557686
• | ISBN-13: 9780887557682