Graduation Year
2019
Date of Submission
5-2019
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Award
Best Senior Thesis in Government
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Government
Reader 1
Professor Jack Pitney
Reader 2
Professor YouYoung Kang
Rights Information
@2019 Melia M Wong
Abstract
During the Civil War, musical fluidity led to an outpouring of songs written about the
conflict. With every popular song came at least one set of alternate lyrics known as
contrafacta. In this thesis, I analyze Northern anthem “The Battle Cry of Freedom,”and
Southern anthems “The Bonnie Blue Flag” and “Dixie” and their contrafacta. Through
the lens of contrafacta, I analyze how the North and the South understood the terms
“liberty” and “freedom.”
Recommended Citation
Wong, Melia, "“The air seems to infatuate the ear”: Confederate Anthems, Union Battle Cries, and their Respective Contrafacta" (2019). CMC Senior Theses. 2128.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2128
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
