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It Was Sung At Ronald Reagan's Funeral, And Adopted With New Lyrics By Labor Radicals. John Updike Quoted It In The Title Of One Of His Novels, And George W. Bush Had It Performed At The Memorial Service In The National Cathedral For Victims Of September 11, 2001. Perhaps No Other Song Has Held Such A Profoundly Significant -- And Contradictory --^ Place In America's History And Cultural Memory Than The The Battle Hymn Of The Republic. In This Sweeping Study, John Stauffer And Benjamin Soskis Show How This Civil War Tune Has Become An Anthem For Cause After Radically Different Cause. The Song Originated In Antebellum Revivalism, With The Melody Of The Camp-meeting Favorite, Say Brothers, Will You Meet Us. Union Soldiers In The Civil War Then Turned It Into John Brown's Body. Julia Ward Howe, Uncomfortable With Brown's Violence And Militancy, Wrote The Words We Know Today. Using Intense Apocalyptic And Millenarian Imagery, She Captured The Popular Enthusiasm Of The Time, The Sense Of A Climactic Battle Between Good And Evil; Yet She Made No Reference To A Particular Time Or Place, Allowing It To Be Exported Or Adapted To New Conflicts, Including Reconstruction, Sectional Reconciliat

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Author

John Stauffer, Benjamin Soskis

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199339587

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Music, History, Arts