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.”

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”

Carter: “The Legacy of the African-American Spiritual” (2010)

“They found a secret door to take them into that world where the tears are wiped away…”

Dixie’s Land No. 5 (“Come, patriots all who hate oppression…”)

This LOC.gov songsheet shows us how Union partisans re-purposed Emmett’s 1859 minstrel walkaround: The opening lines establish reasons for

Library of Congress: “Daguerreotypes” Collection (1839-1864)

A captivating look at the people, clothing, & styles of the antebellum & Civil War eras…