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- Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
- Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Nineteenth-Century Songster: Recovering a Lost Musical Artefact
- Part 1 Production, Function and Commerce
- Part 2 Politics
- 5 The US Presidential Campaign Songster, 1840–1900
- 6 Friendship, Cosmopolitan Connections and Late Victorian Socialist Songbook Culture
- 7 ‘Confound Their Politics’: The Political Uses of ‘God Save the King-Queen’
- 8 Charles Robert Thatcher’s Songsters: Politics on the Goldfields of Victoria, Australia
- Part 3 Nation, Place and Purpose
- Index
- References
5 - The US Presidential Campaign Songster, 1840–1900
from Part 2 - Politics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 April 2017
Book contents
- Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
- Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 The Nineteenth-Century Songster: Recovering a Lost Musical Artefact
- Part 1 Production, Function and Commerce
- Part 2 Politics
- 5 The US Presidential Campaign Songster, 1840–1900
- 6 Friendship, Cosmopolitan Connections and Late Victorian Socialist Songbook Culture
- 7 ‘Confound Their Politics’: The Political Uses of ‘God Save the King-Queen’
- 8 Charles Robert Thatcher’s Songsters: Politics on the Goldfields of Victoria, Australia
- Part 3 Nation, Place and Purpose
- Index
- References
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- Cheap Print and Popular Song in the Nineteenth CenturyA Cultural History of the Songster, pp. 73 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017
References
Songsters Referred To in the Text
Campaign songsters can also be found in collections held by the American Antiquarian Association, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the Library of Congress, Harvard University Library, the University of Pennsylvania Library, and the New York Public Library.
Burleigh, William H. (ed.). The Republican Campaign Songster for 1860. New York: H. Dayton, 1860.Google Scholar
Copperhead Minstrel: A Choice Collection of Democratic Poems and Songs, for the Use of Political Clubs and the Social Circle. New York: Feeks & Banker, 1863.Google Scholar
Herbert, John Bunyan (compiler). Red Hot Democratic Campaign Songs for 1896. Chicago: S. Brainard’s Sons, 1896.Google Scholar
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Hutchinson’s Republican Songster, for the Campaign of 1860. New York: John W. Hutchinson and George Washington Bungay, 1860. [Identical in content to Bungay, The Bobolink Minstrel.]Google Scholar
Taylor, Samuel D. (compiler). The Log Cabin Song-Book. New York: The Log Cabin Office, 1840.Google Scholar
ULAN Press, which specializes in reprinting using OCR technology, has issued several campaign songsters. They are marketed via Amazon.Google Scholar
Songsters Not Referred To in the Text
The following titles are not referred to directly, but are closely related to the subject matter of the chapter and may be of interest to readers.
Bungay, George W. (ed.). The Bobolink Minstrel: or, Republican Songster. New York: O. Hutchinson, 1860. [Identical in content to Hutchinson’s Republican Songster.]Google Scholar
The Lincoln and Hamlin Songster, or the Continental Melodist. Philadelphia and Baltimore: Fisher & Brother; New York: W.J. Bunch, 1860.Google Scholar
Lincoln Campaign Songster. For the use of clubs. Containing all of the most popular songs. Philadelphia: Mason, 1864.Google Scholar
Online Sources
The Center for Popular Music, Middle Tennessee State University, includes campaign songsters: popmusic.mtsu.edu/collections/default.aspx.Google Scholar
The Harris Collection at the John Hay Library, Brown University, Rhode Island, includes many campaign songsters: library.brown.edu/collections/harris/songst.php.Google Scholar
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The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection: levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu.Google Scholar
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