{"product_id":"maryland-my-maryland-music-and-patriotism-during-the-american-civil-war-9781496210722","title":"Maryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism During the American Civil War","description":"\u003cp\u003eHistorians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. \"Maryland, My Maryland\" was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War, yet its story is full of ironies that draw attention to the often painful and contradictory actions and beliefs that were both cause and effect of the war. Most telling of all, it was adopted as one of a handful of Southern anthems even though it celebrated a state that never joined the Confederacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eMaryland, My Maryland: Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e James A. Davis illuminates the incongruities underlying this Civil War anthem and what they reveal about patriotism during the war. The geographic specificity of the song's lyrics allowed the contest between regional and national loyalties to be fought on bandstands as well as battlefields and enabled \"Maryland, My Maryland\" to contribute to the shift in patriotic allegiance from a specific, localized, and material place to an ambiguous, inclusive, and imagined space. Musical patriotism, it turns out, was easy to perform but hard to define for Civil War-era Americans. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James a. Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496210722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames A. Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of musicology at the School of Music, State University of New York at Fredonia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMusic along the Rapidan: Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia, 1863-1864\u003c\/i\u003e (Nebraska, 2014) and editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Arts and Culture of the American Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45501027909747,"sku":"9781496210722","price":93.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_75dc46eb-1e36-43e6-a35c-ccf3bcee96b5.jpg?v=1789490362","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/maryland-my-maryland-music-and-patriotism-during-the-american-civil-war-9781496210722","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}