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How Americans Re-Learned to Think After World War II
In ‘The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,’ Louis Menand explores the poetry, music, painting, dance and film that emerged during the Cold War.
by
Carlos Lozada
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Washington Post
on
April 16, 2021
Islands in the Stream
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
by
David Dayen
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The American Prospect
on
March 22, 2021
'It Shook Me to My Core': 50 Years of Carole King's Tapestry
James Taylor, Roberta Flack, Tori Amos, Joan Armatrading, Rufus Wainwright and more on the 70s masterpiece.
by
Dave Simpson
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Laura Snapes
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The Guardian
on
February 12, 2021
Citizen DJ 2020 Retrospective
The long history of sampling in music, and a new tool that lets artists sample without fear of copyright claims.
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Brian Foo
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Citizen DJ
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December 31, 2020
partner
The Forgotten Civil War History of Two of Our Favorite Christmas Carols
Over time, the historic roots of some holiday music have been forgotten.
by
Christian McWhirter
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Made By History
on
December 23, 2020
How Young America Came to Love Beethoven
On the 250th anniversary of the famous composer’s birth, the story of how his music first took hold across the Atlantic.
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Nora McGreevy
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Smithsonian
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December 16, 2020
Ukulele Ike, a.k.a. Cliff Edwards, Sings Again
Ukulele Ike, otherwise known as Cliff Edwards, was a major American pop star and an important early force in jazz. It’s time to give him another hearing.
by
Donald Fagen
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Jazztimes
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December 7, 2020
How Weird Was Frank Zappa?
Alex Winter’s new documentary about the musician fails to capture his deeply conventional streak.
by
John Semley
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The New Republic
on
November 26, 2020
How ‘America the Beautiful’ was Born
The United States’ unofficial anthem, a hymn of love of country.
by
Jill Lepore
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National Geographic
on
November 3, 2020
The United States of Dolly Parton
A voice for working-class women and an icon for all kinds of women, Parton has maintained her star power throughout life phases and political cycles.
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Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
on
October 8, 2020
Rock & Roll President: How Musicians Helped Jimmy Carter to the White House
On a documentary in which stars from Bob Dylan to Nile Rodgers discuss how music played a vital role in the unknown politician’s rise to power.
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Jim Farber
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The Guardian
on
September 20, 2020
How KRS-One’s ‘Sound of Da Police’ Went From Anti-Cop Anthem to Theme Song and Back Again
The 1993 song reinvigorated the rap legend’s career — and against all odds became a Hollywood (and police) favorite
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Eric Ducker
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Medium
on
July 25, 2020
Hip-hop Is the Soundtrack to Black Lives Matter Protests
Songs from Public Enemy and Ludacris have been heard at marches, continuing a tradition that dates back to the blues.
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Tyina Steptoe
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The Conversation
on
June 25, 2020
A Brief History of the Policing of Black Music
Harmony Holiday dreams of a Black sound unfettered by white desire.
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Harmony Holiday
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Literary Hub
on
June 19, 2020
Why Are NYPD Cruisers Playing the Ice Cream Truck Jingle?
The melody occupies a niche space at the intersection of ice cream, entertainment, and Black history.
by
Luke Fater
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Atlas Obscura
on
June 16, 2020
NOLA Resistance Oral History Project
This oral history project records testimony from individuals who were active in the fight for racial equality in New Orleans between 1954 and 1976.
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The Historic New Orleans Collection
on
June 1, 2020
What’s Going On
The vexed history of "Night Life" in the New Yorker.
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Phillip Golub
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The Drift
on
May 22, 2020
partner
Coronavirus Has a Playlist. Songs About Disease Go Way Back.
Coronavirus songwriting has gone as global as the pandemic itself, creating a new genre called pandemic pop. It’s a tradition with a long history.
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Anthony DeCurtis
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Retro Report
on
April 17, 2020
The Unquiet Hymnbook in the Early United States
This post is a part of our “Faith in Revolution” series, which explores the ways that religious ideologies and communities shaped the revolutionary era.
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Christopher N. Phillips
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Age of Revolutions
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March 2, 2020
The Wilde Woman and the Sunflower Apostle: Oscar Wilde in the United States
Victoria Dailey looks back at Oscar Wilde’s wild ride through the United States in the early 1880s.
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Victoria Dailey
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
February 8, 2020
‘Impeachment Polka’: How a Composer in 1868 Sought to Capitalize on America’s Political Obsession
A pianist performs a piece of music forgotten for 150 years.
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Philip Bump
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Washington Post
on
January 16, 2020
‘Baby, It's Cold Outside' Was Controversial From the Beginning
Here’s what to know about consent in the 1940s, when the song was written.
by
Olivia B. Waxman
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TIME
on
December 5, 2019
Cut Me Loose
A personal account of how one young woman travels to South Carolina in search of her family history and freedom narrative.
by
Joshunda Sanders
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Oxford American
on
November 19, 2019
Why MLK Believed Jazz Was the Perfect Soundtrack for Civil Rights
Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”
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Ashawnta Jackson
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JSTOR Daily
on
October 16, 2019
A Lifetime Of Labor: Maybelle Carter At Work
Maybelle Carter witnessed the dawn of the recording era and helped create country music as one of the genre's biggest acts.
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Jessica Wilkerson
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NPR
on
August 14, 2019
The Breaks of History
We might say that these books are recording a life with music, and that they are worth listening to.
by
Robert Cashin Ryan
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Public Books
on
July 29, 2019
An Ives Fourth
Nostalgia or nightmare?
by
Sudip Bose
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The American Scholar
on
July 4, 2019
The “Star-Spangled Banner” Hysteria of 1917
The Boston Symphony’s refusal to play the national anthem in its one concerts triggered a xenophobic panic that led an arrest.
by
Alex Ross
via
The New Yorker
on
July 2, 2019
The Sounds of Independence
How was the Fourth of July celebrated during the Revolutionary War?
by
Emily Sneff
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Uncommon Sense
on
July 2, 2019
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock ‘n’ Roll
From Bob Dylan to David Bowie to The Beatles, the legendary Beat writer’s influence reached beyond literature into music in surprising ways.
by
Casey Rae
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Longreads
on
June 11, 2019
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