Music in American nineteenth-century history

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1 Foundational examples include DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk; Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll; and Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness. More recent examples, in chronological order, include White and White, The Sounds of Slavery; Gienow-Hecht, Sound Diplomacy; Suisman, Selling Sounds; Ostendorf, Sounds American; McWhirter, Battle Hymns; Wood, “‘Join with Heart and Soul and Voice’”; Thompson, Ring Shout, Wheel About; Roberts, Blackface Nation; Waldstreicher, “Minstrelization and Nationhood”; Coleman, Harnessing Harmony; Bateson, Irish American Civil War Songs; Barnes, Darkology.

2 Besides the contributors to this volume, a small but illustrative selection of this work includes Bentley, New Orleans and the Creation of Transatlantic Opera; Broyles, ‘Music of the Highest Class’; Goodman, Cultivated by Hand; Ryan, “‘The influence of Melody upon man in the wild state of nature’”; Barnes and Goodman “Colloquy: Early American Music and the Construction of Race.” For a previous example of interdisciplinary collaboration see Jackson and Pelkey, Music and History.

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Billy Coleman

Billy Coleman is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Missouri and author of Harnessing Harmony: Music and Politics in the United States, 1789–1865 (UNC Press, 2020).

J. M. Mancini

J. M. Mancini is an Associate Professor of History at Maynooth University and, most recently, author of Art and War in the Pacific World: Making, Breaking and Taking from Anson’s Voyage to the Philippine-American War (California, 2018).