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A tribute to pioneers
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It was August 1846. Samuel Robbins Brown (1810-80), principal of a
missionary school in Hong Kong, stepped in the classroom and raised a
surprising idea with his Chinese students.
"I am returning to the United States because I am ill. Are there
any of you who would like to go with me to study there?" Brown, a
class of 1832 graduate from Yale University, was quoted as saying in
later publications.
The classroom plunged into silence. It was something the Chinese
teenagers had never thought of at that time, considering the long-
held closed-door policy of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and the ...
 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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POLKA PLUGS IN ROCKERS PUSH OLD WORLD MUSIC FOR NEW GENERATION.(SHOWCASE)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; ...showing a new generation that polka is not just Old World music...We're trying to bring to polka a more modern kind of excitement...Polkaholics. The band's "We Play Polkas on Guitar" is a theme song for a growing group of rock/polka bands. It is played in the...
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Polka rockers push Old World music for new generation
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...showing a new generation that polka is not just Old World music...We're trying to bring to polka a more modern kind of excitement...Polkaholics. The band's We Play Polkas on Guitar is a theme song for a growing group of rock/polka bands. It is played in the...
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Polka tries to twirl into mainstream // Local artists aiming for a universal audience
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...music box figures, dancing to the two-four polka beat of Grammy-nominated Lenny Gomulka and...expects that does little for the greening of polka music. "I hate to relate the Paczki thing with polka because we're trying to make the polka thing...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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'Polka music in my veins'
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...of Calumet City, Ill., dance to the polka sounds of Jerry Zahara and his band at...dance floor lively and filled the air with polka music during the annual summer picnic dance...the Hammond Indiana Chapter of the United Polka Association. The event was held recently...
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 "The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)")
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POLKA ROCKS MARRIAGE OF TWO MUSICAL STYLES APPEALS TO A SUBURBAN AUDIENCE.(EAST ZONE)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
; ...of preconceived ideas about polka with the college kids and younger...We're trying to bring to polka a more modern kind of excitement...The Polkaholics' ''We Play Polkas on Guitar'' is a theme song...and a growing group of rock/polka bands. It is played in the...
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POLKA FOLK ETHNIC MUSICANS STILL SEEKING RESPECT THE POLKA GAME PLAYERS PLEASED WITH MUSIC'S DRAW BUT DON'T LOOK FOR POT OF GOLD
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...his Orchestra for the "Best Polka Recording" of 1986. The decision...Recording Arts and Sciences to give polka its own award category was a...Blazonczyk recently recalled. "Polkas always fell under 'folk music...wanted to open some doors for the polka field." Still, polka music...
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 "Rolling Meadows Review (IL)")
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Polka finds a home
Newspaper article from: Rolling Meadows Review (IL)
; The bouncy two-step dance known as the polka may have begun in Bohemia -- or perhaps it...But whatever side you take in the great polka debate, it's clear where the world capital of polka will be for at least the next four days...
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POLKA WITH A SERIOUS TWIST.(SHOWCASE)(NATASHA KASSULKE)(Column)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; ...game. I've been known to engage in some bad polka moves. One of my fondest dance memories was polka dancing with my grandma during open dance night...my shoulder and one of the senior sisters in polka smiled at me and told me that it was all right...
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Polka power - State recognition cheers dance's disciples. Now, if they could just get the young folks to try it.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald
; ...through the fog. Just to get to the dance. Just to polka. "Polka was my life," said the 78-year-old Lynn woman...earned her nearly a dozen trophies including Queen of Polka Swing in Lowell. So Drobneck was, of course, as happy...
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POLKA JUKEBOX; Brave Combo's "Kiss"
Newspaper article from: Polish-American Journal
; ...audience. And, they grow in polkas. "Let's Kiss" is their "official" polka album for 2004 and it also...aren't your grandfather's polka band, yet Brave Combo isn...of Joe Oberaitis on Polish polka music. It's why Bubba Hernandez...
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