Civil War Music

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by Cassie Frye3 views·Updated Aug 7, 2022
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  1. after struggling to come up with the topic.
  2. For my essay,
  3. it struck me that I had really found an interesting part of the
  4. ken Burns documentary where he spoke about the songs that the Civil War
  5. soldiers would sing in camp.
  6. I decided that music in the Civil War would be a great topic to dive into and find
  7. more of what I discovered is that Civil War
  8. music had a number of uses and implications.
  9. Music in the Civil War differed greatly with
  10. use on the battlefield versus on the home front
  11. and in the articles that I chose,
  12. they explore how that music was used from various different viewpoints
  13. in the article, heart of the nation,
  14. the significance of music in the american civil war,
  15. read Wood discusses how popular music became a genre in and of itself
  16. and how it reflected the culture of the home front, especially patriotic songs
  17. like Dixie in the confederacy
  18. and the battle hymn of the Republic
  19. in the Union,
  20. in the Confederate music and the politics
  21. of treason and Disloyalty in the American Civil
  22. War author Billy Coleman talks about how music could be used almost as a weapon.
  23. In the article, he talked specifically about how the confederate
  24. sympathizers were arrested for something as simple as singing or playing songs
  25. that were considered treasonous.
  26. Then in the last article,
  27. James Davis speaks about how soldiers used music to combat trauma
  28. around them and they battled not only the other side,
  29. but severe trauma of loneliness and damage to their mental health.
  30. Looking at these three articles,
  31. it shows that music wasn't just present during the Civil War.
  32. It had very particular uses, and each type of music was used in different ways.