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Book Holmes s Patriotic Songs for coming campaigns

Download or read book Holmes s Patriotic Songs for coming campaigns written by S. N. HOLMES and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sounds of liberty

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  • Author : Kate Bowan
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2017-08-10
  • ISBN : 152610623X
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Sounds of liberty written by Kate Bowan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists – women and men - it brings to light the importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded, inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs; the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching, electioneering, celebrating, commemorating as well as striking, rioting and rebelling; and it listens within the walls of a range of associations where it was a part of a way of life, inspiring, nurturing, though at times restrictive. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened.

Book Classic Hymn Stories

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  • Author : Louis F. Benson
  • Publisher : Xulon Press
  • Release : 2007-03
  • ISBN : 1602664390
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Classic Hymn Stories written by Louis F. Benson and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational Stories Behind Your Favorite Hymns This classic book, written a century ago by the country's leading hymnologist, offers a collection of uplifting stories that will revitalize your worship. Originally published in 1903, the book was the first of its kind - a popular book that gave readers a unique look at the history behind the most popular hymns of the era. Did you know: Charles Wesley wrote the doxology to the hymn "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today" The hymn "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem" was written by a Sunday school teacher during last-minute preparations for a Christmas Eve service. "Onward Christian Soldiers" became popular shortly after the end of the Civil War. Discover fascinating facts and inspiring stories behind hymns and the men and women who wrote them. This book is also a valuable source of illustrations for pastors and music ministers.

Book Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States written by George Thomas Kurian and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 2849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Founding Fathers through the present, Christianity has exercised powerful influence in the United States—from its role in shaping politics and social institutions to its hand in inspiring art and culture. The Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States outlines the myriad roles Christianity has played and continues to play. This masterful five-volume reference work includes biographies of major figures in the Christian church in the United States, influential religious documents and Supreme Court decisions, and information on theology and theologians, denominations, faith-based organizations, immigration, art—from decorative arts and film to music and literature—evangelism and crusades, the significant role of women, racial issues, civil religion, and more. The first volume opens with introductory essays that provide snapshots of Christianity in the U.S. from pre-colonial times to the present, as well as a statistical profile and a timeline of key dates and events. Entries are organized from A to Z. The final volume closes with essays exploring impressions of Christianity in the United States from other faiths and other parts of the world, as well as a select yet comprehensive bibliography. Appendices help readers locate entries by thematic section and author, and a comprehensive index further aids navigation.

Book Dwight s Journal of Music

Download or read book Dwight s Journal of Music written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Songs of America

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  • Author : Jon Meacham
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2019-06-11
  • ISBN : 0593132963
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Songs of America written by Jon Meacham and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A celebration of American history through the music that helped to shape a nation, by Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and music superstar Tim McGraw “Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw form an irresistible duo—connecting us to music as an unsung force in our nation's history.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin Through all the years of strife and triumph, America has been shaped not just by our elected leaders and our formal politics but also by our music—by the lyrics, performers, and instrumentals that have helped to carry us through the dark days and to celebrate the bright ones. From “The Star-Spangled Banner” to “Born in the U.S.A.,” Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw take readers on a moving and insightful journey through eras in American history and the songs and performers that inspired us. Meacham chronicles our history, exploring the stories behind the songs, and Tim McGraw reflects on them as an artist and performer. Their perspectives combine to create a unique view of the role music has played in uniting and shaping a nation. Beginning with the battle hymns of the revolution, and taking us through songs from the defining events of the Civil War, the fight for women’s suffrage, the two world wars, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and into the twenty-first century, Meacham and McGraw explore the songs that defined generations, and the cultural and political climates that produced them. Readers will discover the power of music in the lives of figures such as Harriet Tubman, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr., and will learn more about some of our most beloved musicians and performers, including Marian Anderson, Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Duke Ellington, Carole King, Bruce Springsteen, and more. Songs of America explores both famous songs and lesser-known ones, expanding our understanding of the scope of American music and lending deeper meaning to the historical context of such songs as “My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” “God Bless America,” “Over There,” “We Shall Overcome,” and “Blowin’ in the Wind.” As Quincy Jones says, Meacham and McGraw have “convened a concert in Songs of America,” one that reminds us of who we are, where we’ve been, and what we, at our best, can be.

Book Imperialism and music

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  • Author : Jeffrey Richards
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-01
  • ISBN : 1526121379
  • Pages : 545 pages

Download or read book Imperialism and music written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Universalist Register

Download or read book The Universalist Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Charles Ives Tunebook  Second Edition

Download or read book The Charles Ives Tunebook Second Edition written by Clayton W. Henderson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henderson provides important insights into the composer's body of work.

Book A Fiery Gospel

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  • Author : Richard M. Gamble
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-15
  • ISBN : 1501736426
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book A Fiery Gospel written by Richard M. Gamble and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its composition in Washington's Willard Hotel in 1861, Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been used to make America and its wars sacred. Few Americans reflect on its violent and redemptive imagery, drawn freely from prophetic passages of the Old and New Testaments, and fewer still think about the implications of that apocalyptic language for how Americans interpret who they are and what they owe the world. In A Fiery Gospel, Richard M. Gamble describes how this camp-meeting tune, paired with Howe's evocative lyrics, became one of the most effective instruments of religious nationalism. He takes the reader back to the song's origins during the Civil War, and reveals how those political and military circumstances launched the song's incredible career in American public life. Gamble deftly considers the idea behind the song—humming the tune, reading the music for us—all while reveling in the multiplicity of meanings of and uses to which Howe's lyrics have been put. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" has been versatile enough to match the needs of Civil Rights activists and conservative nationalists, war hawks and peaceniks, as well as Europeans and Americans. This varied career shows readers much about the shifting shape of American righteousness. Yet it is, argues Gamble, the creator of the song herself—her Abolitionist household, Unitarian theology, and Romantic and nationalist sensibilities—that is the true conductor of this most American of war songs. A Fiery Gospel depicts most vividly the surprising genealogy of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and its sure and certain position as a cultural piece in the uncertain amalgam that was and is American civil religion.

Book Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century written by Paul Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a cultural history of the nineteenth-century songster: pocket-sized anthologies of song texts, usually without musical notation. It examines the musical, social, commercial and aesthetic functions songsters served and the processes by which they were produced and disseminated, the repertory they included, and the singers, printers and entrepreneurs that both inspired their manufacture and facilitated their consumption. Taking an international perspective, chapters focus on songsters from Ireland, North America, Australia and Britain and the varied public and private contexts in which they were used and exploited in oral and print cultures.

Book The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume

Download or read book The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 14227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume curates an unparalleled collection of literary works that together trace the evolution and impact of feminist thought across generations and geographies. Including an array of literary styles from the pioneering novel to insightful essays, and groundbreaking plays this anthology situates itself within a critical period of social and literary history where the voices of women, and some supportive men, began to loudly question and dismantle the patriarchal structures limiting their lives. The breadth of diversity and the literary richness of works, inclusive of seminal pieces by figures like Virginia Woolf and Harriet Martineau, illustrate the multifaceted nature of feminist discourse, showcasing variations in approach, perspective, and outcome that have enriched the dialogue on gender equality and womens rights. The contributors to this volume, ranging from Henrik Ibsen to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are as varied in their backgrounds as in their writing styles, representing a wide spectrum of the 19th and early 20th centuries' intellectual and cultural landscape. These authors, collectively, offer insights into feminist thought's evolution, aligning with several critical movements from Romanticism to Modernism. Their works collectively highlight how different cultures, historical periods, and personal experiences have shaped understandings and expressions of gender and identity, providing readers with a comprehensive overview of feminisms literary and social significance. For readers seeking to immerse themselves in the foundational texts of feminist literature, The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume presents a unique and enriching opportunity. It invites a broad audience to explore the transformative power of words in shaping societal norms and values regarding gender. This collection not only serves as an educational resource but also as a starting point for discussions about the diversity of feminist perspectives and the ongoing struggle for equality. Engaging with these texts offers an unparalleled insight into the legacy of feminist thought, making this anthology an essential addition to any literary collection.

Book Pennsylvania School Journal

Download or read book Pennsylvania School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Popular Imperialism and the Military

Download or read book Popular Imperialism and the Military written by John M. MacKenzie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial war played a vital part in transforming the reputation of the military and placing it on a standing equal to that of the navy. The book is concerned with the interactive culture of colonial warfare, with the representation of the military in popular media at home, and how these images affected attitudes towards war itself and wider intellectual and institutional forces. It sets out to relate the changing image of the military to these fundamental facts. For the dominant people they were an atavistic form of war, shorn of guilt by Social Darwinian and racial ideas, and rendered less dangerous by the increasing technological gap between Europe and the world. Attempts to justify and understand war were naturally important to dominant people, for the extension of imperial power was seldom a peaceful process. The entertainment value of war in the British imperial experience does seem to have taken new and more intensive forms from roughly the middle of the nineteenth century. Themes such as the delusive seduction of martial music, the sketch of the music hall song, powerful mythic texts of popular imperialism, and heroic myths of empire are discussed extensively. The first important British war correspondent was William Howard Russell (1820-1907) of The Times, in the Crimea. The 1870s saw a dramatic change in the representation of the officer in British battle painting. Up to that point it was the officer's courage, tactical wisdom and social prestige that were put on display.

Book The Essential Feminist Collection     60 Powerful Classics in One Volume

Download or read book The Essential Feminist Collection 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 14227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Feminist Collection 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume' is a seminal anthology that encapsulates the multifaceted nature of feminist literary expression across two centuries. This collection traverses a vast landscape of literary styles from the penetrating realism of Henrik Ibsen to the nuanced social commentary of Charlotte Brontë, and the pioneering environmentalism of Gene Stratton-Porter. It underscores the incredible diversity and significant impact of feminist literature, showcasing standout pieces that have fundamentally shifted the cultural and literary discourse surrounding gender, society, and human rights. The range of narratives, from novels and essays to speeches and letters, provides a comprehensive view of the feminist literary canon, highlighting the enduring relevance of its themes. The contributing authors and editors, coming from varied backgrounds, epochs, and disciplines, bring together a rich tapestry of perspectives that reflect the historical, cultural, and literary movements of their times. From the enlightened essays of Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill to the poignant novels of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, each contributor has played a pivotal role in shaping the contours of feminist thought. The anthology serves not only as a literary collection but as a dynamic conversation among some of the most influential feminist voices, examining the intersectionality of gender, class, and race, and advocating for social and political reform. 'The Essential Feminist Collection 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume' is an indispensable resource for readers seeking to delve into the depths of feminist literature. It offers an unparalleled opportunity to engage with the works of trailblazing authors who have articulated the struggles, aspirations, and triumphs of women across generations. This anthology is recommended for its educational value, its breadth of insights, and the rich dialogue it fosters between the diverse authors' works. Readers are invited to explore this comprehensive collection, which serves not only as a testament to the progress of feminist thought but also as an inspiration for ongoing advocacy and discourse in the quest for gender equality.

Book Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland  1800 1850

Download or read book Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland 1800 1850 written by James M. Brophy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the politicisation of 'ordinary people' in western Germany in the 1850s.

Book Poetry and the Making of Modern Egypt

Download or read book Poetry and the Making of Modern Egypt written by Mounah Abdallah Khouri and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: