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The Muse of Fire: Liberty and War Songs as a Source of American History (open access)

The Muse of Fire: Liberty and War Songs as a Source of American History

The development of American liberty and war songs from a few themes during the pre-Revolutionary period to a distinct form of American popular music in the Civil War period reflects the growth of many aspects of American culture and thought. This study therefore treats as historical documents the songs published in newspapers, broadsides, and songbooks during the period from 1765 to 1865. Chapter One briefly summarizes the development of American popular music before 1765 and provides other introductory material. Chapter Two examines the origin and development of the first liberty-song themes in the period from 1765 to 1775. Chapters Three and Four cover songs written during the American Revolution. Chapter Three describes battle songs, emphasizing the use of humor, and Chapter Four examines the figures treated in the war song. Chapter Five covers the War of 1812, concentrating on the naval song, and describes the first use of dialect in the American war song. Chapter Six covers the Mexican War (1846-1848) and includes discussion of the aggressive American attitude toward the war as evidenced in song. Chapter Six also examines the first antiwar songs. Chapters Seven and Eight deal with the Civil War. Chapter Seven treats derivative war songs, including …
Date: August 1984
Creator: Bowman, Kent A. (Kent Adam), 1947-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Centonization and Concordance in the American Southern Uplands Folksong Melody: A Study of the Musical Generative and Transmittive Processes of an Oral Tradition (open access)

Centonization and Concordance in the American Southern Uplands Folksong Melody: A Study of the Musical Generative and Transmittive Processes of an Oral Tradition

This study presents a theory of melodic creation, transmission, memory, and recall within the Anglo- and Celtic-American culture of lower Appalachia, from the time of the earliest European settlers until the present. This theory and its attendant hypotheses draw upon earlier published ideas, current theories of memory and recall, and the results of applying a computer-supported analytical system developed by the author. Sources include previous studies of folksong melody, song collections, and earlier investigations of the psychology of memory. Also important are portions of an anonymous treatise on traditional Celtic musical scales and an authoritative, modern interpretation of this document. A final body of sources is a small group of sound-recordings.
Date: August 1984
Creator: Bevil, J. Marshall (Jack Marshall)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1984 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 1, 1984
Creator: Wisch, J. A. & Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1984 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 25, 1984
Creator: Wisch, J. A. & Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1984 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 23, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: February 23, 1984
Creator: Wisch, J. A. & Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1984 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: January 26, 1984
Creator: Wisch, J. A. & Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1984 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 18, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: October 18, 1984
Creator: Wisch, J. A. & Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1984 (open access)

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 4, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 4, 1984
Creator: Samuels, Joseph W. & Samuels, Jeanne F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1984 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 16, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: August 16, 1984
Creator: Wisch, J. A. & Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1984 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: April 12, 1984
Creator: Wisch, J. A. & Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1984 (open access)

Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 19, 1984
Creator: Samuels, Joseph W. & Samuels, Jeanne F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fiber, Fabric, Art (open access)

Fiber, Fabric, Art

The problem addressed in this paper was the appropriateness of fiber, especially in the form of fabric, as an art medium. Relevant statements by crafts makers, philosophers, art critics, and artists were investigated along with historical and contemporary art and craft works.
Date: May 1984
Creator: Dishongh, Suzanne
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1984 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1984

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 13, 1984
Creator: Wisch, J. A. & Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Swift in his Poetry (open access)

Swift in his Poetry

Swift appears in many of his poems either in his o person or behind a poetic mask which does little to conceal his identity. The poems contain Swift's view of his own character. Even in the poems addressed to others, the most important subject is Swift himself. This study is divided into chapters which examine the various roles Swift assumed in both his private and public lives. Following a brief introduction are two chapters of more interest than significance. The first of these is concerned with poems on Swift as a houseguest. These poems frequently relate the difficulties Swift's eccentric behavior caused his hosts. The second deals with poems on Swift's relationships with friends such as Thomas Sheridan and Patrick Delany, as well as with a public adversary, Jonathan Smedley.
Date: August 1984
Creator: Kerbaugh, Jim Lawrence
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library