1st Edition

Music in American Nineteenth-Century History

Edited By Billy Coleman, J. M. Mancini Copyright 2025
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

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.  In the nineteenth-century United States, music was everywhere: from places of worship to the workplace, the parlor, the stage, and the street. Music accompanied paths of reform, supported both radical and... Read more

Introduction: Music in American nineteenth-century history

Billy Coleman and J. M. Mancini

 

1. Black women and the cultural performance of music in mid-nineteenth century Natchez

Candace L. Bailey

 

2. Singers and managers: women and the operatic stage in late nineteenth-century America

Katherine K. Preston

 

3. From obscurity to national icon: memorializing Stephen C. Foster in the 1890s

Christopher Lynch

 

4. We have fed you all 1000 years: nineteenth-century radical song and the rise of North American labor

Christopher J. Smith

 

5. Teaching nineteenth-century American history with music: leveraging the possibilities through technology and Universal Design for Learning

Laura Lohman

 

Afterword

James A. Davis

 

Biography

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).