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Sheet Music of the Confederacy: A History

Sheet Music of the Confederacy: A History

  • Author: Curtis, Robert I.

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Contents

  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Symbols
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Secession and
  • One. ­Pre-Secession Sheet Music
  • Two. The Sheet Music Business in the Wartime South
  • Three. Confederate Nationalism: States' Rights and National Symbols
  • Four. Confederate Nationalism: Confederate Flags
  • Five. Confederate Nationalism: National Anthems
  • Six. War and Its Participants
  • Seven. The Home Front: Living with the War
  • Eight. Home and Family During the War
  • Nine. Border States
  • Ten. ­Federal-Occupied Southern Capitals and Northern Cities
  • Between pages 286 and 287 are 16 color plates containing 16 photographs
  • Part II. Postwar to 1898 and Foreign Countries
  • Eleven. Resignation, Resistance, and Remembrance
  • Twelve. The Lost Cause
  • Thirteen. Reunion and Reconciliation
  • Fourteen. Foreign Countries
  • Appendix 1a: The Music Sheet
  • Appendix 1b: ­Confederate-Imprint vs ­Confederate-Related Sheet Music
  • Appendix 1c: Dating Sheet Music
  • Appendix 1d: What Constitutes a Separate Listing?
  • Appendix 2: Nineteenth Century Terminology for Songs and Instrumental Music
  • Appendix 3: Sheet Music Recorded in Confederate Copyright Records
  • Appendix 4: Differing Lyrics for Different Dixies (First Verse and Chorus only)
  • Chapter Notes
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Name Index
  • Titles Index