Title
"Goodbye, Old Arm": The Domestication of Veterans' Disabilities in Civil War Era Popular Songs
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 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/