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Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform.(Book review)
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Journal of the Early Republic
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September 22, 2008
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Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform. By Scott Gac. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. 328. Cloth, $45.00.)
If Elvis Costello is right that talking about music is like dancing about architecture, Scott Gac shows that music nevertheless provides a fascinating window into American cultural history. Focused mostly on the decade of the 1840s, Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Antebellum Reform offers a detailed and admiring account of the abolitionist quartet's rise to fame, along with broader observations on reform, religion, and popular ...
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