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- W23691919 abstract "examining the Scandinavian emigrant song tradition that is, the body of song texts concerning emigration to America or the fate of an individual emigrant or immigrantone is struck by the wide variety of perceptions of America that it encompasses. One thematic grouping gives us propaganda songs both for and against emigration; songs of justification; songs presenting America as a mythical paradise; songs about specific historical events; farewell songs; songs about the actual ocean journey; songs of longing and homesickness; and songs of regret. In terms of tone, a similar range is found: there are angry songs, mournful songs, and sentimental songs, as well as humorous and satirical ditties that take a light-hearted approach to the emigration experience. America is seen both positively, as an escape from poverty, social injustice, and religious oppression; as the object of desire, the home of freedom and equality; and negatively, as a source of disillusionment, the land where hopes and dreams are shattered. The social historian can turn to this song tradition to find evidence supporting virtually all of the contradictory but coexisting views of America prevalent in Scandinavia during the years of mass emigration in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Songs about emigration from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark have been published in collections.1 Although a few have come down to us only in oral tradition or in hand-written songbooks, and othersalso a small numberwere first printed in the United States, the majority of the perhaps 400 extant songs were originally published in Scandinavia, often as street ballads (skillingtrycksvisor). They were aimed primarily at a Scandinavian audience, one that obviously included many future or at least potential emigrants, but also a far larger group that never left the" @default.
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- W23691919 title "FROM EMIGRANT TO IMMIGRANT: AMERICA AND AMERICANIZATION IN SCANDINAVIAN SONG TRADITION" @default.
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