Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York

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

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