Sounds of Sympathy
William Wells Brown's Anti-Slavery Harp , Abolition, and the Culture of Early and Antebellum American Song
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aaron D Mcclendon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-100 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2014.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W302888748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
In "Sounds of Sympathy," I contextualize William Wells Brown's Anti-Slavery Harp (1848) within the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American hymnodic reforms, the ecstatic singing of the Second Great Awakening, minstrelsy, the rise of the Hutchinson Family Singers, and the culture of antislavery song more generally. Ultimately, I argue that Brown's songbook-which included two of his own compositions-was Brown's effort to harness sound as a tool to aid abolition
Art · Art history · Culture of the United States · HARP · Literature · Singing · Sympathy · History · Media, Communication, and Education · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |