Music Along the Rapidan

Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community During Winter Quarters, Virginia

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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In December 1863, Civil War soldiers took refuge from the dismal conditions of war and weather. They made their winter quarters in the Piedmont region of central Virginia: the Union’s Army of the Potomac in Culpeper County and the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia in neighboring Orange County. For the next six months the opposing soldiers eyed each other warily across the Rapidan River. In Music Along the Rapidan James A. Davis examines the role of music in defining the social communities that emerged during this winter encampment. Music was an essential part of each soldier’s personal identity, and Davis considers how music became a means of controlling the acoustic and social cacophony of war that surrounded every soldier nearby. Music also became a touchstone for colliding communities during the encampment-the communities of enlisted men and officers or Northerners and Southerners on the one hand and the shared communities occupied by both soldier and civilian on the other. The music enabled them to define their relationships and their environment, emotionally, socially, and audibly.

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Utgivningsdatum2014-07-01
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor360
FörlagUniversity of Nebraska Press
ISBN9780803245099

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Civil War Music and Community1. Winter Quarters in Virginia, 1863–18642. Music and the Community of Soldiers3. Music and the Military Community4. Military Balls and the Officers’ Community5. Soldiers, Music, and the Civilian Community6. Music and the Religious Community7. Brass Bands and the Intersection of Musical CommunitiesConclusion: The Impact of Winter QuartersNotesBibliographyIndex

"Music Along the Rapidan provides a model for how we might consider music in this difficult period of American history—one that looks beyond who published what where and seeks rather to understand how, when, why, and under what circumstances Americans experienced music."—Civil War Book Review"Music Along the Rapidan is an engaging addition to this area of Civil War scholarship."-Catherine Bateson, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "Delightfully readable. A complete study of the Civil War where it meets music and national life."—Randal Allred, professor of English at Brigham Young University–Hawaii