US Civil War Print Culture and Popular Imagination

Richards, Eliza

doi:10.1093/alh/aji019

American Literary History

2005

DOI: 10.1093/alh/aji019

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US Civil War Print Culture and Popular Imagination

Eliza Richards

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War on the Home Front: Battle Pieces for the Piano from the American Civil War

Morgan¹

2015

J Soc American Mus

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During the Civil War, countless musical works were written about the conflict and marketed to amateur musicians, especially women. Among them were pieces composed in response to recent conflicts, often published within days or weeks of the relevant event. Popular genres included keyboard battle pieces, which depicted some of the most pivotal battles of the war in musical rhetoric, bringing them alive in the minds and imaginations of drawing room performers and audiences.This essay is the first detailed study of American keyboard battle pieces from the Civil War. It investigates how they mirror many aspects of Civil War life, including the civilian demand for vivid war news, especially eyewitness accounts from the front, the advent of telegraphic reporting, and the fallibility of the media in reporting on the war. The pieces also reflect cultural trends of the mid-nineteenth century not related to war, particularly the popularity of theatrical melodrama on the stage and the prominence of virtuosity in piano repertoire. In investigating the performance of battle pieces as a site where women imagined and experienced the perils of war, this article contributes to scholarship that deepens our understanding of how women at home participated in mass culture.

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War on the Home Front: Battle Pieces for the Piano from the American Civil War

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2015

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US Civil War Print Culture and Popular Imagination

Cited by 3 publications

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War on the Home Front: Battle Pieces for the Piano from the American Civil War

War on the Home Front: Battle Pieces for the Piano from the American Civil War

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A Poetic E Pluribus Unum : Conventions, Imperatives, and the Poetic Call-to-Arms in Frank Moore's Rebellion Record

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