Conjuring freedom : music and masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" /
Conjuring Freedom: Music and Masculinity in the Civil War's "Gospel Army" analyzes the songs of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, a regiment of Black soldiers who met nightly in the performance of the ring shout. In this study, acknowledging the importance of conjure as a religious,...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Black performance and cultural criticism.
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Table of Contents:
- A strange fulfillment of dreams: racial fetish and fantasy in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Army life in a Black regiment
- The collective will to conjure: religion, ring shout, and spiritual militancy in a Black regiment
- One more valiant soldier: music and masculinity in a Black regiment
- Moon rise: songs of loss, lament, and liberation in a Black regiment
- Military "glory" or racial horror
- Postlude: My Army cross over.
