Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York - Including Twenty-Two New Settings of Period Tunes

Includes 22 new settings of period tunes, and examines the expressive culture of the largest antebellum tenant farmer protest from its origin to its 21st-century reverberations.

About the author

Nancy Newman is Associate Professor of Music at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Newman, Nancy (University At Albany Newman
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2025
• EAN: 9798855800722
• ISBN: 9798855800722
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: SUNY series, An American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valley
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Music, History: specific events & topics, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Music, Local History, United States of America, USA, Folk & traditional music, Music reviews & criticism, History of the Americas, Music reviews and criticism, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, Folk, Folkloric styles, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States, Traditional and folk music