Music in American Nineteenth-Century History

This book brings together a trail blazing collection of music scholars to explore the intersections, frictions, and resonances between nineteenth-century American music and history. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of American Nineteenth Century History.

Autorentext

Billy Coleman is Associate Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, United States. He is the author of Harnessing Harmony: Music and Politics in the United States, 1789-1865 (2020).

J. M. Mancini is Associate Professor of History at Maynooth University, Ireland, and, most recently, author of Art and War in the Pacific World: Making, Breaking and Taking from Anson's Voyage to the Philippine-American War (2018).

Inhalt

Introduction: Music in American nineteenth-century history 1. Black women and the cultural performance of music in mid-nineteenth century Natchez 2. Singers and managers: women and the operatic stage in late nineteenth-century America 3. From obscurity to national icon: memorializing Stephen C. Foster in the 1890s 4. We have fed you all 1000 years: nineteenth-century radical song and the rise of North American labor 5. Teaching nineteenth-century American history with music: leveraging the possibilities through technology and Universal Design for Learning Afterword