Battle Hymns

The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War

Christian McWhirter (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2014 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-1367-3 (ISBN)

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Music was everywhere during the Civil War. Tunes could be heard ringing out from parlour pianos, thundering at political rallies, and setting the rhythms of military and domestic life. With literacy still limited, music was an important vehicle for communicating ideas about the war, and it had a lasting impact in the decades that followed. Drawing on an array of published and archival sources, Christian McWhirter analyses the myriad ways music influenced popular culture in the years surrounding the war and discusses its deep resonance for both whites and blacks, South and North.

Though published songs of the time have long been catalogued and appreciated, McWhirter is the first to explore what Americans actually said and did with these pieces. By gauging the popularity of the most prominent songs and examining how Americans used them, McWhirter returns music to its central place in American life during the nation's greatest crisis. The result is a portrait of a war fought to music.

Christian McWhirter is assistant editor for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois, USA.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2014
Reihe/Serie	Civil War America
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 233 mm
Gewicht	456 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Pop / Rock
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-4696-1367-0 / 1469613670
ISBN-13	978-1-4696-1367-3 / 9781469613673
Zustand	Neuware