Bugle Resounding

by KELLEY, BRUCE C.; Snell, Mark A.

• ISBN13: 9780826215383
• ISBN10: 0826215386
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-09-30
• Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr

Summary

In the mid-nineteenth century the United States was musically vibrant. Rising industrialization, a growing middle class, and increasing concern for the founding of American centers of art created a culture that was rich in musical capital. Beyond its importance to the people who created and played it is the fact that this music still influences our culture today. Although numerous academic resources examine the music and musicians of the Civil War era, the research is spread across a variety of disciplines and is found in a wide array of scholarly journals, books, and papers. It is difficult to assimilate this diverse body of research, and few sources are dedicated solely to a rigorous and comprehensive investigation of the music and the musicians of this era. This anthology, which grew out of the first two National Conferences on Music of the Civil War Era, is an initial attempt to address that need. Those conferences established the first academic setting solely devoted to exploring the effects of the Civil War on music and musicians. Bridging musicology and history, these essays represent the forefront of scholarship in music of the Civil War era. Each one makes a significant contribution to research in the music of this era and will ultimately encourage more interdisciplinary research on a subject that has relevance both for its own time and for ours. The result is a readable, understandable volume on one of the few understudied-yet fascinating-aspects of the Civil War era.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
``Old Times There Are Not Forgotten''
An Overview of Music of the Civil War Era	1	(36)
Bruce C. Kelley
Music and Community in the Civil War Era	37	(96)
Deane L. Root
They Weren't All Like Lorena
Musical Portraits of Women in the Civil War Era	54	(17)
Lenora Cuccia
``An Inspiration to All''
New Hampshire's Third Regiment and Hilton Head Post Bands in Civil War South Carolina	71	(35)
Richard C. Spicer
Confederates at the Keyboard
Southern Piano Music during the Civil War	106	(13)
David B. Thompson
Henry Clay Work
``The Silver Horn'' as Civil War Elegy	119	(14)
Walter L. Powell
The Production and Consumption of Confederate Songsters	133	(96)
Kirsten M. Schultz
Across a Great Divide
Irish American Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era	169	(33)
Michael Saffle
Civil War Music and the Common Soldier
The Experiences of Charles Wellington Reed	202	(27)
Eric A. Campbell
Music Inspired by the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863--1913	229	(20)
Mark A. Snell
Contributors	249	(2)
Index	251