Exploring Irish and Jewish Historical Musical Link

  • October 15, 2015
  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 CST
  • Mundelein Center, Palm Court
  • Kyle Roberts, kroberts2@luc.edu
  • Free
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    If it Wasn't for the Irish and the Jews: Exploring Irish and Jewish Historical Musical Links and Influences on Vaudeville and Early Tin Pan Alley in America Mick Moloney, Professor of Music and Irish Studies, New York University with Chicago's own Jimmy Keane, virtuouso All Ireland Piano Accordion Champion

    Part of Memoirs, Music, and Memory: New Scholarship on Nineteenth-Century American Catholics, a seminar series offered in conjunction with the inaugural Ramonat Seminar in American Catholic History and Culture

    Thursday Evenings, 6 pm, in the Palm Court, 4th Floor, Mundelein Center

    Catholics played a formative role in the life and development of nineteenth-century America. They built churches, homes, and elaborate networks of hospitals, schools, and asylums open to all city residents, regardless of faith. They brought beliefs, practices, and worldviews shaped by the European communities from whence they came, but reconciled them with a new world of democratic participation, market capitalism, and cultural pluralism. In the process, Catholics created new American identities even as they faced debilitating poverty, ethnic and racial strife, Protestant prejudice, and violence.

    The experience of nineteenth-century Catholic Chicagoans provides a window for undergraduates in the 2015-16 Ramonat Seminar in American Catholic History and Culture to understand the American experience more broadly. In conjunction with this class, leading scholars of religion, history, and music are coming to Loyola as part of a seminar series cosponsored by the Loyola History Department. Each seminar features a leading scholar either discussing a pre-circulated paper or giving a performance. The seminars take place on Thursday evenings at 6 pm in the Palm Court, 4th Floor of Mundelein Center. Each seminar is free and open to the public. Several of the seminars have pre-circulated papers that will be available a week in advance. Please email Dr. Kyle Roberts (kroberts2@luc.edu) in advance for a copy.