Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s The Last Hope:
The Commodification of Music, Sentimentalism, and
Religion
Laura Moore PruettMerrimack CollegeNorth Andover, MA
[email protected] for American Music 37th Annual
Conference11 March 2011, Cincinnati, OH
The Cult of Sentiment
• Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
• Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)
• Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
• D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
• Samuel Richardson– Clarissa (1748)
Sensibility in 19th-Century America
• Susan Warner– The Wide, Wide World
(1850)• Harriet Beecher
Stowe– Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(1852)• Louisa May Alcott
– Little Women (1868)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk(1829-1869)
• Stephen Foster (1826-1864)– “Jeannie with the
Light Brown Hair”• 2nd Great Awakening
– 1800-1840s• Nature• Spiritualism
Music, Sensibility, and Religion
The Last Hope - Music
The Last Hope – Cover Art
Hymn Settings of The Last Hope
• Hubert Platt Main, music; Thomas Raffles, text; 1867
• Edwin Pond Parker, arranger– Charles S. Robinson, A Selection
of Spiritual Songs With Music for Use in Social Meetings, 1878• “Holy Ghost! With Light Divine”• “In the dark and cloudy day”• Cast thy burden on the Lord”• ‘Tis my happiness below”
• Charles Ives, Psalm 90 (1893)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s The Last Hope:
The Commodification of Music, Sentimentalism, and
Religion
Laura Moore PruettBoston, MA
[email protected]: The Society of Nineteenth-Century
Americanists23 May 2010, State College, PA
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