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Author Martynowych, Orest T.

Title The showman and the Ukrainian cause : folk dance, film, and the life of Vasile Avramenko / Orest T. Martynowych
Published Winnipeg, Manitoba : University of Manitoba Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in immigration and culture ; 11
Studies in immigration and culture ; 11.
Contents Prologue : World premiere at the Orpheum -- The Man and his mission -- Dance master -- Motion picture producer -- Fugitive -- Epilogue : The legacy tour
Summary "The quixotic and volatile Vasile Avramenko (1895-1981) used folk dance and film in a life-long crusade to promote Ukraine's struggle for independence to North American audiences."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index
Subject Avramenko, Vasylʹ
Avramenko, Vasylʹ
Dancers -- Ukraine -- Biography
Dancers -- Canada -- Biography
Motion picture producers and directors -- Canada -- Biography
Folk dancing, Ukrainian.
Folk dancing, Ukrainian -- Canada
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
Dancers
Folk dancing, Ukrainian
Motion picture producers and directors
Canada
Ukraine
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016417256
ISBN 9780887557682
0887557686
9780887554704
0887554709
9780887554728
0887554725