"The Union of Music and Text in Whitman's Drum-Taps and Higginson's Arm" by John M. Picker

WWQR > Vol. 12 (1994) > No. 4

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

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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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Picker, John M.. "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 (Spring 1995), 231-245.

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