Nancy Newman is Professor of Music at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America.

"Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement can be appreciated at multiple levels. Musicologists and folklorists will enjoy its astute analyses and find its approach to contrafacta worthwhile for adoption in other studies. Non-musicians will find their understanding of an important period of history enlivened by an appreciation of the emotional, intellectual, and historical dimensions of the cultural artifacts it produced … Newman has given us a focused and clearly-written account of an underexamined but important body of expressive culture." — The Hudson River Valley Review"This is a wonderful work. Newman has distilled from a big secondary literature a clear, accurate, and remarkably economical account of the Anti-Rent Movement in nineteenth-century New York.... Newman's work enables us to feel what the anti-rent faithful felt during the long struggle with their manor lords. There is nothing like Songs and Sounds in the literature. It's the best short history of the Anti-Rent Movement. It's the best analysis of popular culture in the Anti-Rent era." — Charles W. McCurdy, Professor of History and Law, Emeritus, University of Virginia"A model for others to emulate." — Richard Hamm, author of Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920.

• List of IllustrationsLand AcknowledgmentAcknowledgmentsPreludeIntroduction: Down with the Rent!Part 1: Critical Perspectives 1. Tin Horn Rebellion2. A Movement Takes Shape, 1839–18443. Climax and Denouement, 1845–18464. Living Memory and LegacyPart 2: Musical and Lyrical Works List of WorksGalleryNotesBibliographyIndex

Nancy Newman is Professor of Music at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America.

"Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement can be appreciated at multiple levels. Musicologists and folklorists will enjoy its astute analyses and find its approach to contrafacta worthwhile for adoption in other studies. Non-musicians will find their understanding of an important period of history enlivened by an appreciation of the emotional, intellectual, and historical dimensions of the cultural artifacts it produced … Newman has given us a focused and clearly-written account of an underexamined but important body of expressive culture." — The Hudson River Valley Review"This is a wonderful work. Newman has distilled from a big secondary literature a clear, accurate, and remarkably economical account of the Anti-Rent Movement in nineteenth-century New York.... Newman's work enables us to feel what the anti-rent faithful felt during the long struggle with their manor lords. There is nothing like Songs and Sounds in the literature. It's the best short history of the Anti-Rent Movement. It's the best analysis of popular culture in the Anti-Rent era." — Charles W. McCurdy, Professor of History and Law, Emeritus, University of Virginia"A model for others to emulate." — Richard Hamm, author of Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920.

• List of IllustrationsLand AcknowledgmentAcknowledgmentsPreludeIntroduction: Down with the Rent!Part 1: Critical Perspectives 1. Tin Horn Rebellion2. A Movement Takes Shape, 1839–18443. Climax and Denouement, 1845–18464. Living Memory and LegacyPart 2: Musical and Lyrical Works List of WorksGalleryNotesBibliographyIndex

Nancy Newman is Professor of Music at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America.

"Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement can be appreciated at multiple levels. Musicologists and folklorists will enjoy its astute analyses and find its approach to contrafacta worthwhile for adoption in other studies. Non-musicians will find their understanding of an important period of history enlivened by an appreciation of the emotional, intellectual, and historical dimensions of the cultural artifacts it produced … Newman has given us a focused and clearly-written account of an underexamined but important body of expressive culture." — The Hudson River Valley Review"This is a wonderful work. Newman has distilled from a big secondary literature a clear, accurate, and remarkably economical account of the Anti-Rent Movement in nineteenth-century New York.... Newman's work enables us to feel what the anti-rent faithful felt during the long struggle with their manor lords. There is nothing like Songs and Sounds in the literature. It's the best short history of the Anti-Rent Movement. It's the best analysis of popular culture in the Anti-Rent era." — Charles W. McCurdy, Professor of History and Law, Emeritus, University of Virginia"A model for others to emulate." — Richard Hamm, author of Shaping the Eighteenth Amendment: Temperance Reform, Legal Culture, and the Polity, 1880–1920.

• List of IllustrationsLand AcknowledgmentAcknowledgmentsPreludeIntroduction: Down with the Rent!Part 1: Critical Perspectives 1. Tin Horn Rebellion2. A Movement Takes Shape, 1839–18443. Climax and Denouement, 1845–18464. Living Memory and LegacyPart 2: Musical and Lyrical Works List of WorksGalleryNotesBibliographyIndex