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Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform (review)
- History
- 2008
Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform. By Scott Gac. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 328. Cloth, $45.00.)Reviewed…
How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses. By Mark M. Smith. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Pp. 200. $29.95.)
- History
- 2006
This title shows how the five senses shaped southern racial stereotypes.For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses - not just their eyes - to construct…
American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam
- History
- 2003
Some warriors are drawn to the thrill of combat and find it the defining moment of their lives. Others fall victim to fear, exhaustion, impaired reasoning, and despair. This was certainly true for…
Sacred Song in America: Religion, Music, and Public Culture
- Sociology
- 2003
In Sacred Song in America, Stephen A. Marini explores the full range of American sacred music and demonstrates how the meanings and functions of this musical expression can contribute to a greater…
Music in Everyday Life
- Art
- 2000
1. Formulating questions - the music and society nexus 2. Musical affect in practice 3. Music as a technology of self 4. Music and the body 5. Music as a device of social ordering 6. Music's social…
North Over South: Northern Nationalism and American Identity in the Antebellum Era
- History
- 2000
In most studies of nationalism, the United States is curiously ignored or is examined only during its colonial and republican periods. But it was the Civil War, argues Susan-Mary Grant, that truly…