| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 110.4 | The History Cooperative

Victor Greene. A Singing Ambivalence: American Immigrants between Old World and New, 1830–1930. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. 2004. Pp. xxvii, 215. $39.00.
On one level, Victor Greene's book attempts to cover a vast terrain: the song lyrics of multiple ethnic groups who immigrated to the United States in the hundred years from 1830 to 1930. On another level, it is a very focused work, looking for evidence of an ambivalence about the emigrant experience that transcends the identity of any individual ethnic group. Greene seeks to uncover the emotions felt by individual immigrants but shared among the various groups as well, revealed through the texts of the songs they sang. He succeeds admirably in this task.	1
The introduction to this work, although less than thirteen pages in length, is an invaluable survey of the scholarly literature on song and ethnicity. This is an essay in which the footnotes are as important as the text itself, for they lead the reader through a wide range of anthropological, ethnomusicological, and other multidisciplinary studies related to the task at hand. The author provides a wide spectrum of views, so much so that the reader may be tempted to begin making a personal reading list of titles taken from these footnotes.	. . .

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