ISBN:
9781469658896
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 249 pages)
,
11 halftones, 1 table
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Coleman, Billy Harnessing harmony
DDC:
306.4/8420973
Keywords:
Conservatism History
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Elite (Social sciences) History
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Political culture History
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Music Political aspects 18th century
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History
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Music Political aspects 19th century
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History
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Conservatism
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Elite (Social sciences)
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Music ; Political aspects
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Political culture
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
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History
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United States
Abstract:
"'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'"--
Abstract:
"The star-spangled banner" and the development of a federalist musical tradition -- Musical organizations and the politics of American civil society -- Music and respectability in antebellum electoral politics -- Music and the making of a conservative radical.
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