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George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter: A Biography. By Polly H. Carder. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2013

Juanita Karpf
Juanita Karpf*
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 2013 , pp. 101 - 104
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References

1 Root, George F., The Story of a Musical Life (Cincinnati, OH: John Church, 1891; reprint ed., New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), 130Google Scholar.

2 Ibid., 132.

3 Polly H. Carder, “George Frederick Root, Pioneer Music Educator: His Contributions to Mass Instruction in Music” (Ed.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1971).

4 Root used variant spellings of his pseudonym. In Story of a Musical Life, he gave the spelling as “G. Friederich Wurzel” (83) but listed “G. Friedrich Wurzel” as the composer of “Fare Thee Well, Kitty Dear” (Carder 45).

5 Root, George F., The Haymakers, ed. Martin, Dennis R.. Recent Researches in American Music, vols. 9–10 (Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1984)Google Scholar; and Crawford, Richard, “George F. Root and American Vocal Music,” in The American Musical Landscape: The Business of Musicianship from Billings to Gershwin (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 151–83Google Scholar.

6 Stopp, Jacklin Bolton, “A. N. Johnson, Out of Oblivion,” American Music 3/2 (Summer 1985): 152–70CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Stopp, , “Johnson Versus Mason: Musical Politics, 1843 Style,” The Quarterly Journal of Music Teaching and Learning 3/3 (Fall 1992): 54–60Google Scholar.