dc.contributor.author |
Accinno, Michael |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Howe, Blake |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Jensen-Moulton, Stephanie |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Lerner, Neil |
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dc.contributor.editor |
Straus, Joseph |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2019-09-10T23:09:09Z |
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dc.date.available |
2019-09-10T23:09:09Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016-06-02 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19310 |
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dc.description.abstract |
<p>This essay discusses the phenomenon of disabled Union veterans who turned to the
profession of organ grinding during and after the American Civil War: they became
mendicant musicians who played music in the streets to beg for money. Within a cultural
logic that emphasized the sorting of worthy from unworthy poor—and “true” veterans
from “imposters”—the related practices of street music and mendicancy were harshly
stigmatized. Although artistic and literary representations of disabled organ grinders
often used the performers as rhetorical devices to elicit fear, loathing, or pity,
closer scrutiny of surviving documentary evidence reveals that the men indeed possessed
agency, along with a capacity and desire for self-representation.</p>
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dc.publisher |
Oxford University Press |
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dc.relation.isversionof |
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331444.013.20 |
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dc.title |
Disabled Union Veterans and the Performance of Martial Begging |
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dc.type |
Book section |
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duke.contributor.id |
Accinno, Michael|0987424 |
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dc.date.updated |
2019-09-10T23:09:04Z |
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pubs.begin-page |
403 |
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pubs.end-page |
422 |
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pubs.organisational-group |
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences |
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pubs.organisational-group |
Duke |
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pubs.organisational-group |
Thompson Writing Program |
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pubs.publication-status |
Published |
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duke.contributor.orcid |
Accinno, Michael|0000-0002-9746-3372 |
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