How Shall We Sing in a Foreign Land?: Music of Irish Catholic Immigrants in the Antebellum United States (Irish in America)

By Robert R. Grimes

This work contributes to the history of Irish Catholicism in the United States and to aspects of ethnomusicology, by documenting the musical repertory and practice of the urban Irish in America. It focuses on Catholic parishes and affiliated organisations between 1830 and 1860.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268011109
• ISBN13: 9780268011109
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"