Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New Yor... - 9798855800722

Name: Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New Yor... - 9798855800722
Brand: State University of New York Press

State University of New York Press

Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New YorkIncluding Twenty-Two New Settings of Period Tunes\nAuthor(s): Nancy Newman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9798855800722, 979-8855800722\nSynopsis\nIncludes 22 new settings of period tunes, and examines the expressive culture of the largest antebellum tenant farmer protest from its origin to its 21st-century reverberations.\n\nUpstate New York's Anti-Rent Movement is considered the last struggle over feudalism in the United States. Tenant farmers in the Hudson-Mohawk region engaged in organized protest throughout the 1840s to contest monopoly ownership of the land they worked. Arguing their cause in newspapers, on broadsides, and at rallies, their aspirations also took shape in poetry and song. More than twenty sets of lyrics (and one instrumental composition) were written at various stages of the conflict. Some of their .