{"id":77,"date":"2009-09-01T15:12:04","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T19:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/02e189b.netsolhost.com\/blog1\/?p=77"},"modified":"2012-01-13T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T16:04:36","slug":"indianapolis-mannerchor-keeps-good-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/2009\/09\/01\/indianapolis-mannerchor-keeps-good-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis M\u00e4nnerchor Keeps Good Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stopped cold in amazement! While casually searching\u00a0 on line for the archives of M\u00e4nnerch\u00f6re that were established at about the same\u00a0time as our own, I came across the Indianapolis M\u00e4nnerchor<\/a> Archives\u00a0that are housed by the Indiana University-Purdue University Ruth Lilly Collections <\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Archives. <\/p>\n

What a treasure trove of\u00a0historical documents, ranging from the by-laws of the Athenaeum Turnverein to correspondence, meeting notes, photographs, and many of\u00a0 the meeting and operational documents.\u00a0\u00a0The actual documents are not on line, but the references to them are.<\/p>\n

Some other references appear on the site:<\/p>\n

Emmerich, C.E., Festschrift zur Feier des Vierzigjaehrigen Stiftungsfestes des Indianapolis Maennerchor.<\/em> Indianapolis, 1894.<\/p>\n

Keller, Josef, Festschrift zur feier des Fuenfzigjahrigen Stiftungsfest des Indianapolis Maennerchor.<\/em> Indianapolis, 1904.<\/p>\n

Probst, George Theodore. The Germans in Indianapolis: 1840-1918.<\/em> Revised and illustrated edition by Eberhard Reichman. Indianapolis, IN: German-American Center, IUPUI & Indiana German Heritage Society, 1989.<\/p>\n

Snyder, Suzanne Gail. The M\u00e4nnerchor tradition in the United States: A historical analysis of its contribution to the American musical culture.<\/em> University of Iowa PhD thesis: 1991.<\/p>\n

Snyder, Suzanne Gail. “The Indianapolis M\u00e4nnerchor : contributions to a new musicality in midwestern life” in Music and culture in America, 1861-1918.<\/em> Edited by Michael Saffle, New York : Garland Pub., 1998. Pp. 111-140.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I liked the Ruth Lilly Collection site’s\u00a0reference to the failed European Revolutions of 1848 as\u00a0being a major cause\u00a0of this incredible\u00a0migration to the US.\u00a0\u00a0Similarly, Wagner, himself, \u00a0had been an enthusiast for the 1848 revolutions and had been an active participant in the Dresden Revolution of 1849<\/a>, as a consequence of which he was forced to live for many years in exile from Germany<\/a>. [Wikipedia]\u00a0In his Die Kunst und die Revolution<\/a>\u00a0Wagner explained his ideals in the context of the failed 1848 revolutions.\u00a0Wagner envisioned a society that\u00a0was like his concept of ancient Greece. However, shortly after the Dresden Revolution, Wagner fled to avoid imprisonment.<\/p>\n

Getting back to the Collections <\/a>web site, do visit it and get an idea of the various documents in the collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Indianapolis M\u00e4nnerchor website is very interesting, well implemented, and a joy to visit. A very good learning experience, as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mannerchor-group","category-mannerchor","category-traditions-and-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xHH9-1f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madisonmaennerchor.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}