Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2015
Department
Music History
Abstract
IN October of 1863, two years into the Civil War, a short editorial titled "Empty Sleeves" appeared on the front page of the Staunton Spectator.1 It addressed a question that had become familiar in the wake of the war's unprecedented violence; namely, how to encounter, or how to look at (in both the literal and figurative senses), the quickly growing population of veterans whose injuries marked them as "disabled:' This question could be cause for considerable anxiety in able-bodied Americans whose beliefs were shaped by Victorian and muscular Christian values.
ThinkIR Citation
Burke, Devin, ""Goodbye, Old Arm": The Domestication of Veterans' Disabilities in Civil War Era Popular Songs" (2015). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 539.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/539
ORCID
0000-0002-3657-3842
Companion Website
Comments
“Goodbye, Old Arm”: The Domestication of Veterans’ Disabilities in Civil War-Era Popular Songs.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Disability Studies, edited by Joseph Straus, Neil Lerner, Blake Howe, and Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, 423-446. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Companion web materials: https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780199331444/ch22/