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Composer, bilingual writer, and evangelist, Francis Florentine Hagen (1815-1907) was the last representative of the golden age of the musical composition of the Moravians. James Boeringer brings together extracts from Hagen's diaries and translations, along with numerous illustrations -- portraits, music title pages, manuscripts.
This book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism’s erection of barriers to immigration appealed to artisans, a category that included most male artists at some stage in their careers. But as importantly, its patriotic message about the nature of the American republic also overlapped with widely shared convictions about the necessity of democratic reform. Movements directed toward improving the human condition, including anti-slavery and temperance, often c...