1st Edition
Music in American Nineteenth-Century History
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).






