The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Davis, James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In The Arts and Culture of the American Civil War, an interdisciplinary team of scholars explores the way the arts - theater, music, fiction, poetry, painting, architecture, and dance - were influenced by the war as well as the unique ways that art functioned during and immediately following the war. Included are discussions of familiar topics (such as Ambrose Bierce, Peter Rothermel, and minstrelsy) with less-studied subjects (soldiers and dance, epistolary songs). The collection as a whole sheds light on the roles of race, class, and gender in the production and consumption of the arts for soldiers and civilians at this time; it also draws attention to the ways that art shaped - and was shaped by - veterans long after the war.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315438238
• Artikelnr.: 47140164

Autorenporträt

James A. Davis is Professor of Musicology and Chair of the Music History Area at the School of Music, State University of New York at Fredonia, USA. His primary research focuses on the music and musicians of the American Civil War. He has also worked in the areas of music history pedagogy, American popular music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the history of bands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1 "My thoughts are not here...": The Civil War Dance Floor as Multitemporal
Place
James A. Davis
2 "But That's the Old Wound, You See": Ambrose Bierce's Civil War Poetry
Michael W. Schaefer
3 "Her Bright Smile Haunts Me Still": Imagining Women in the Confederate
Minstrel Shows on Johnson's Island, Ohio
Kirsten M. Schultz
4 "Do let me preserve the unities": The Stakes of Metaphor in Civil War-era
Fiction
Rebecca Entel
5 "One of the most beautiful villages that ever were seen": Civil War
Architecture
Megan Kate Nelson
6 "Dearest Sister, 'Who Will Care for Mother Now?": Epistolary Songs of the
Civil War Northern Home Front"
Sabra Statham
7 "No Partial Picture": Peter F. Rothermel's The Battle of Gettysburg -
Pickett's Charge
Barbaranne E. M. Liakos
8 "You women folks has no business to be here anyhow": Romancing the War &
Women in Civil War Memories on Stage
Bethany D. Holmstrom
Afterword: Artists and Soldiers
John R. Neff