Harnessing harmony music, power, and politics in the United States, 1788-1865
"'Harnessing harmony' uses music to unravel the relationship between elite power and the people through their uses of culture in politics from the early national period to the Civil War. Coleman traces how understandings of musical power were used to shape the development of a popular...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | "'Harnessing harmony' uses music to unravel the relationship between elite power and the people through their uses of culture in politics from the early national period to the Civil War. Coleman traces how understandings of musical power were used to shape the development of a popular American political culture. It explores primarily how elites, at a time of mass democratization and rapid social change, looked to music to persuade Americans to rise above political and partisan conflict to instead create a more unified, orderly, and deferential society. In doing so the work identifies a distinctively conservative strain of musical thought and action. As our readers point out, it impressively challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions about political music being more 'bottom up' than 'top down'"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 249 pages) illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469658896 1469658895 |