What kind of music/songs were popular among the upper, middle, and lower classes of The United States during and leading up to the American Civil War? And how did the music differ between the classes?

by Wormy-Grub

What kind of music/songs were popular among the upper, middle, and lower classes of The United States during and leading up to the American Civil War? Were there large differences between what different classes in America were listening to? Were there large regional musical differences for example North vs South, Louisiana vs Texas etc.?

Georgy_K_Zhukov

I've written a good deal on music of the Civil War, so these older answers might be of interest: