| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766–1820. By Nicholas Michael Butler. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007. xxii, 375 pp. $49.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-705-4.)

In 1766, thirty-seven Charleston, South Carolina, gentlemen established the St. Cecilia Society to sponsor concerts and exclusive social gatherings in their prosperous colonial community. Suspending its activities during the Revolution, the society nonetheless prospered after the war until Charleston's economic decline and changing cultural tastes led to the demise of its concert program in 1820. But for more than half a century, according to Nicholas Michael Butler, the St. Cecilia Society was "the premier social organization in the American South and the most significant musical organization in North America" (p. xii).

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