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EICC Instructor to be included in Yearbook of German-American Studies
William Roba, Professor of History at Scott Community College, one of the Eastern Iowa Community Colleges, has been selected for inclusion in the Yearbook of German-American Studies.
Roba’s essay, “Bix Beiderbecke as a German-American,” examines how Davenport’s German-Iowans influenced Beiderbecke’s development as a jazz musician and how German-Americans played an important role in American musical history.
The essay appears in the 45th volume of the Yearbook of German-American Studies that is published annually by the Society for German-American Studies. The yearbook contains articles in English and German on German-American history, literature and culture.
The Society for German-American Studies is an international professional organization dedicated to encouraging and advancing the scholarly study of the history, language, literature and culture of the German element in North America.
It includes coverage of the immigrants and their descendants from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and other German-speaking areas of Europe. Members of the Society include representatives from various academic disciplines who share a common interest in German-American Studies.