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

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

Newman, Nancy

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Series: Suny Series, an American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valle

19th Century United States HistoryCountry & FolkRegional: Middle Atlantic

ISBN13: 9798855800715
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.52 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

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.

Upstate New York's Anti-Rent Movement is considered the last struggle over feudalism in the United States. Tenant farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk region engaged in organized protest throughout the 1840s to contest monopoly ownership of the land they worked. Arguing their cause in newspapers, on broadsides, and at rallies, their aspirations also took shape in poetry and song. More than twenty sets of lyrics (and one instrumental composition) were written at various stages of the conflict. Some of their musical sources, such as Old Dan Tucker and Bruce's Address, are still well known. Each fully contextualized song offers insight into the role vernacular music played in one of the nineteenth century's major social reform movements.

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