Grants for NH community groups.
Tag: antebellum
Hardtacks Antebellum & Civil War SONGSTER
An anthology of 100+ midcentury song sheets & lyrics drawn from primary sources…
Smith: “The Creolization of American Culture” (2013)
“William Sidney Mount and the Roots of Blackface Minstrelsy”
Library of Congress: “Daguerreotypes” Collection (1839-1864)
A captivating look at the people, clothing, & styles of the antebellum & Civil War eras…
Abrahams: Singing the Master (1993)
This carefully researched survey reconstructs the multicontinental roots of antebellum Southern cornshucking rituals:
Chaff: The Ethiopian Glee Book (1848-9)
Collects four-part settings of popular songs from the antebellum minstrel stage…
Ring, Ring De Banjo (Foster, 1851)
Frederick Douglass (1845) ~ “Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears…”
Angelina Baker (Foster, 1850)
Stephen C. Foster ~ Letter to E. P. Christy (May 25, 1852) ~ “As I once intimated to you, I had the intention of omitting my name* on my Ethiopian songs, owing to the prejudice against them by some, which might injure my reputation as a writer of another style of music…”
Old Folks At Home (Foster, 1851)
Stephen Foster’s 1851 song “Old Folks At Home” provides an excellent introduction to the antebellum period:
The Hardtacks 