The Union of Music and Text in Whitman's Drum-Taps and Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment

John M Picker

doi:10.13008/2153-3695.1458

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The Union of Music and Text in Whitman's Drum-Taps and Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment

Abstract

Explores the similarities and differences between Whitman's Drum-Taps and Thomas Wentworth Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment, describing how beneath the "veneer of dislike and disgust" between the two men, "both authors use music to unite communities against a war of national dissolution" and how both "successfully bridge the gap between written and aural modes of communication."

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How to Cite: Picker, J. M. (1995) “The Union of Music and Text in Whitman's Drum-Taps and Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. 12(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1458