Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform (repost)
Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform
Publisher: Yale University Press | ISBN 10: 0300111983 | 2007 | PDF | 328 pages | 1.2 MB
Publisher: Yale University Press | ISBN 10: 0300111983 | 2007 | PDF | 328 pages | 1.2 MB
In the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America’s most popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into national icons, taking up the reform issues of their age and singing out especially for temperance and antislavery reform. This engaging book is the first to tell the full story of the Hutchinsons, how they contributed to the transformation of American culture, and how they originated the marketable American protest song.