BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Library Market//iCal Export//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Songs and Sounds of the Anti-Rent Movement in Upstate New York UID:53320 DTSTAMP:20260414T201100Z DTSTART:20260309T220000Z DTEND:20260309T233000Z LOCATION:10 Community Way, East Greenbush, NY 12061, United States ROOM: Multi-Purpose Room DESCRIPTION:Like the other great reform movements of the 19thcentury, Anti -Rentism had a soundtrack. Tenant farmers of the Hudson-Mohawk region—wh ile engaging in organized protest against monopoly ownership of the land t hey worked—expressed their aspirations in poetry and music.In her new bo ok, Nancy Newman joins these lyrics and their corresponding tunes into one publication for the first time. Come hear how the Anti-Renters argued the ir cause in newspapers and on broadsides with sound and song. Professor N ancy Newman teaches at the University at Albany–SUNY. Click this link to learn more. She is also the author of Good Music for a Free People: The Germania Musical Society in Nineteenth-Century America. Please register.   URL:https://eastgreenbushlibrary.librarymarket.com/songs-and-sounds-of-the -anti-rent-movement-in-upstate-new-york END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR