“He thought of the many dear boys already gone over to the unseen shore …”
Author: Marek
Cartoonist, musician, teacher.
2016 Stephen C. Foster Award
Bestow’d by The Civil War Roundtable of the Merrimack.
Maryland, My Maryland (Randall, 1861)
“She meets her sisters on the plain-
‘SIC SEMPER!’ ’tis the proud refrain…”
Smith: “The Creolization of American Culture” (2013)
“William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy”
Dubois: “The Banjo” (2016)
“The growing of a new gourd in strange lands to replace the broken ones of the old, the crafting of strings to sound out new songs.”
CD: “Global Banjar”
Delineates the development of diverse national, racial, and class identities in antebellum pop/folk banjo music from various corners of the 19th century globe…
Flaherty: “Music of the Old South: Polk Miller & the Old South Quartette” (2006)
Collects the recordings and ephemera of the OSQ (1909-1928), in all their shocking and confusing beauty…
Hutchinson: “The Story of the Hutchinsons (Tribe of Jesse)” (1896)
Invaluable insights into one of the most famous singing families of the Antebellum era.
Hugill: “Shanties from the Seven Seas” (1961)
“Shipboard Work-Songs and Songs Used as Work-Songs from the Great Days of Sail”
Freedmen’s Christmas Shout (South Carolina, 1863)
“At last they cleared the room and began, and a strange sight it was…”
Epstein: “Sinful Tunes and Spirituals” (1978)
Black Folk Music to the Civil War
Jamison: “Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics” (2015)
“Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance”
The Hardtacks 