Singing for Freedom : The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PRELUDE -- Opening Theme: The Hutchinson Family Singersas Reformers -- First Variation: The Hutchinsons' Commercial Success and Legacy -- PART FIRST -- Exposition: The Civil War and the Postbellum Problemof Antislavery -- Development, Scene One, 1893:The Legacy of the Hutchinson Family Singers and of Antislavery Reform -- Scene Two, the 1840s: Music and Antislavery, the Hutchinson Family Singers as Public Abolitionists -- PART SECOND -- First Section: Origins of the Hutchinson Family,1800-1830 -- Second Section: The Hutchinson Children and Some Initial Musical Influences -- First Section (Modified): Milford, the Hutchinson Family, Religion, and Culture -- INTERMISSION (Bridge to Part Third) -- Changes in a Northern Land: Religion,Politics, and Culture,1820-1840 -- Manufactured Nature -- PART THIRD -- First Section: Music (the Hutchinsons' First Concert) -- Second Section: A Music Career and the Huntfor an Identity,1841 -- Coda to First Section: Music (Music Publishingand the Hutchinsons' 1843 Hits) -- PART FOURTH -- Theme: Leisure and Politics in 1844 -- First Variation:Money for Nothing? The Hutchinson Family Singers as Communitarians -- Second Variation: Hutchinson Family Singers Fans and the Weight of Sympathy -- FINALE -- Exposition: American Antislavery Abroad, Racially Mixed Audiences at Home -- Development: Antiwar Culture and Political Antislavery,1845-1848 -- Recapitulation, Opening: Abby's Retirement, 1849 -- Recapitulation, Closing: The End of the Hutchinson Family Singers -- Coda to Part First: John and Fred, the 1893 Danvers Meeting, the 1893 World Expo, and the Trajectory of Black and White Antebellum Reform -- Appendix: Lyrics to Select Hutchinson Family Singers Songs -- Notes -- Index.

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