TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coleman,Billy
TI  - Harnessing harmony: music, power, and politics in the United States, 1788-1865 
SN  - 9781469658896
AV  - ML3917 .H376 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Conservatism
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Elite (Social sciences)
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Music
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; "The star-spangled banner" and the development of a federalist musical tradition --; Musical organizations and the politics of American civil society --; Music and respectability in antebellum electoral politics --; Music and the making of a conservative radical; 2; b
N2  - "'Harnessing harmony' uses music to unravel the relationship between elite power and the people through their uses of culture in politics from the early national period to the Civil War. Coleman traces how understandings of musical power were used to shape the development of a popular American political culture. It explores primarily how elites, at a time of mass democratization and rapid social change, looked to music to persuade Americans to rise above political and partisan conflict to instead create a more unified, orderly, and deferential society. In doing so the work identifies a distinctively conservative strain of musical thought and action. As our readers point out, it impressively challenges prevailing scholarly assumptions about political music being more 'bottom up' than 'top down'"--
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