Antebellum music
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| Type: | Articles |
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| Creator: | Byrnside, Ronald L., 1933- |
| Title: | Antebellum music |
| Date: | 1800-1860 |
| Description: | Encyclopedia article about antebellum music in Georgia. The musical life of antebellum Georgia is remarkable not so much for its originality--much of the music heard in Georgia was heard nationwide--but for its diversity and the extent to which it permeated the lives of the citizenry. In 1800 Georgians were still singing "Yankee Doodle" with nationalistic pride in the streets of Savannah. Sixty years later they were whistling "Dixie." The songs stand as musical bookends to the antebellum period and illustrate the monumental and wrenching change from the youthful cockiness of a union newly formed to the calamity of disunion. Between these touchstones, a great wealth of many types of music was heard in Georgia. |
| Subjects: | Music--Georgia | Shape-note singing--Georgia | Folk music--Georgia |
| Contributors: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) | Georgia Humanities Council | University of Georgia. Press | Merrill-Hall New Media | GALILEO (Georgia statewide project) |
| Online Publisher: | [Athens, Ga.] : Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press, 2006-03-03 |
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| Related Institutions: | New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project) |
| Collection Information: | New Georgia Encyclopedia |