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Laura Moore Pruett Merrimack College North Andover, MA Laura.Pruett@merrimack

Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s The Last Hope : The Commodification of Music, Sentimentalism, and Religion. Laura Moore Pruett Merrimack College North Andover, MA Laura.Pruett@merrimack.edu Society for American Music 37 th Annual Conference 11 March 2011, Cincinnati, OH. The Cult of Sentiment.

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Laura Moore Pruett Merrimack College North Andover, MA Laura.Pruett@merrimack

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  1. Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s The Last Hope: The Commodification of Music, Sentimentalism, and Religion Laura Moore Pruett Merrimack College North Andover, MA Laura.Pruett@merrimack.edu Society for American Music 37th Annual Conference 11 March 2011, Cincinnati, OH

  2. 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)

  3. 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)

  4. Louis Moreau Gottschalk(1829-1869)

  5. Music, Sensibility, and Religion • Stephen Foster (1826-1864) • “Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair” • 2nd Great Awakening • 1800-1840s • Nature • Spiritualism

  6. The Last Hope - Music

  7. The Last Hope – Cover Art

  8. 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)

  9. Louis Moreau Gottschalk’s The Last Hope: The Commodification of Music, Sentimentalism, and Religion Laura Moore Pruett Boston, MA lmpruett@bellsouth.net C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists 23 May 2010, State College, PA

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