Harnessing harmony : music, power, and politics in the United States, 1788-1865 /

Harnessing harmony : music, power, and politics in the United States, 1788-1865 /

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Author / Creator:	Coleman, Billy, author.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	xv, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Music -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century. Music -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 18th century. Political culture -- United States -- History. Elite (Social sciences) -- United States -- History. Conservatism -- United States -- History. Conservatism. Elite (Social sciences) Music -- Political aspects. Political culture. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12478016

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ISBN:	9781469658865 1469658860 9781469658872 1469658879 9781469658889
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-234) and index.
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'"--

Table of Contents:

"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.