{"product_id":"the-showman-and-the-ukrainian-cause-folk-dance-film-and-the-life-of-vasile-avramenkovolume-11-9780887557682","title":"The Showman and the Ukrainian Cause: Folk Dance, Film, and the Life of Vasile Avramenkovolume 11","description":"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 how culture can become a political tool in a diaspora community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Orest T. Martynowych\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Manitoba Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.86lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.09w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780887557682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrest T. Martynowych is a historian at the Centre for Ukrainian-Canadian Studies, University of Manitoba. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eUkrainians in Canada: The Formative Years, 1891-1924.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40635228487795,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":36.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1581745d-160c-4ae4-8e8f-5d8f51e2321f.jpg?v=1671810789","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-showman-and-the-ukrainian-cause-folk-dance-film-and-the-life-of-vasile-avramenkovolume-11-9780887557682","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}