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Christian McWhirter, Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). viii + 321 pp. $39.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2014

Katherine K. Preston
Katherine K. Preston*
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The College of William and [email protected]
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , December 2014 , pp. 323 - 327
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References

1 McWhirter, Christian L., ‘Liberty's Great Auxiliary: Music and the American Civil War’ (PhD diss., University of Alabama, 2009)Google Scholar.

2 The earliest of these books include my own Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825–60 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993/2001), Martin, George, Verdi at the Golden Gate: Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush Years (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993)Google Scholar and Ahlquist, Karen, Democracy at the Opera: Music, Theater, and Culture in New York City, 1815–60 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997)Google Scholar. Additional scholarship since the 1990s has confirmed the importance of opera in American popular culture of the nineteenth century.

3 Kelley, Bruce C. and Snell, Mark A., eds., Bugle Resounding: Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2004)Google Scholar.