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"An Overview of Music of the Civil War Era" Bugle Resounding. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8131-2375-5. Lanning, Michael (2007). The Civil War 100. Sourcebooks. ISBN 978-1-4022-1040-2. McWhirter, Christian (2012). Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina ...
Her second posthumous album entitled Farewell Song was released in February 1982, about 12 years after her death. Her rarity album Rare Pearls was released in 1999, the nine-disc set Blow All My Blues Away (2012) and The Pearl Sessions (2012). The compilation album This Is Janis Joplin was released in 1995, about 25 years after her death.
Songs of the Civil War is a compilation album, released in 1991 by Columbia, that presents an assortment of contemporary performers recording period pieces and traditional songs, most of which date back to the American Civil War.
World War I produced many patriotic American songs, such as "Over There", written by popular songwriter George M. Cohan. Cohan composed the song on April 6, 1917, when he saw some headlines announcing America's entry into the war. [6] Cohan is also famous for penning "Yankee Doodle Dandy," an over-the-top parody of patriotic music.
"A Yankee Song" (The Charlotte Democrat, Charlotte, N.C., December 23, 1862)"Oh we'll hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree" (and similar) is a variant of the American folk song "John Brown's Body" that was sung by the United States military, Unionist civilians, and freedmen during and after the American Civil War.
Answer to Gentle Annie. Joseph Philbrick Webster, also known as J.P. Webster (February 18, 1819 – January 18, 1875), was an American songwriter and composer most notable for his musical compositions during the antebellum and American Civil War periods of United States history, and his post-war hymns.
The "Battle Cry of Freedom", also known as "Rally 'Round the Flag", is a song written in 1862 by American composer George Frederick Root (1820–1895) during the American Civil War. A patriotic song advocating the causes of Unionism and abolitionism , it became so popular that composer H. L. Schreiner and lyricist W. H. Barnes adapted it for ...