Singing for freedom : the Hutchinson Family Singers and the nineteenth-century culture of reform /

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In the two decades prior to the Civil War, the "Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire" became America's most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into national icons, taking up the ref...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gac, Scott
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Hutchinson Family (Singers)
1800-1899
Singers > New Hampshire > Biography.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Chanteurs > New Hampshire > Biographies.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
MUSIC > Printed Music > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
Antislavery movements
Singers
New Hampshire
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Prelude. Opening theme : the Hutchinson Family Singers as reformers ; First variation : the Hutchinsons' commercial success and legacy
  • Part first. Exposition : the Civil War and the postbellum problem of antislavery ; Development, scene one, 1893 : the legacy of the Hutchinson Family Singers and of antislavery reform ; Scene two, the 1840s : music and antislavery, the Hutchinson Family Singers as public abolitionists
  • Part second. First section : origins of the Hutchinson family, 1800-1830 ; Second section : the Hutchinson children and some initial musical influences ; First section (modified) : Milford, the Hutchinson family, religion, and culture
  • Intermission (bridge to part third). Changes in a northern land : religion, politics, and culture, 1820-1840 ; Manufactured nature
  • Part third. First section : music (the Hutchinsons' first concert) ; Second section : a music career and the hunt for an identity, 1841
  • Coda to first section : music (music publishing and the Hutchinsons' 1843 hits)
  • Part fourth. Theme : leisure and politics in 1844 ; First variation : money for nothing? The Hutchinson family singers as communitarians ; Second variation : Hutchinson Family Singers fans and the weight of sympathy
  • Finale. Exposition : American antislavery abroad, racially mixed audiences at home ; Development : antiwar culture and political antislavery, 1845-1848 ; Recapitulation, opening : Abby's retirement, 1849
  • Recapitulation, closing : the end of the Hutchinson Family Singers ; Coda to part first : John and Fred, the 1893 Danvers Meeting, the 1893 World Expo, and the trajectory of black and white antebellum reform
  • Appendix : lyrics to select Hutchinson Family Singers songs.

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