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Smithsonian releases 590 reels of blues music

John Fea   |  August 21, 2023

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“Sing a Song!” Bob McGrath and American music

John Fea   |  December 16, 2022

I lost myself last night following every link in historian Kathryn Ostrofsky‘s essay on the late Sesame Street actor Bob McGrath. (It was a wonderful distraction from grading blue books!) Ostrofsky shows how McGrath brought “old music” to a new...

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The Author’s Corner with Catherine V. Bateson

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 4, 2022

Catherine V. Bateson is Associate Lecturer of American History and American Studies Chief Examiner at the University of Kent. This interview is based on her new book, Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood (LSU Press, 2022). JF:...

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The FBI on the trail of Aretha Franklin

John Fea   |  September 14, 2022

Nina Corcoran and Jazz Monroe explain at Pitchfork: The FBI has declassified its file on the lateĀ Aretha Franklin. TheĀ document, which spans 270 pages and includes reports from more than a dozen states, shows that the FBI extensively tracked Franklin’s civil...

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A preview of the Bob Dylan Museum

John Fea   |  April 26, 2022

Here is Douglas Brinkley at Vanity Fair: When news brokeĀ in 2016 that Bob Dylan had given his vast archive of recordings and artifacts to the George Kaiser Family Foundation of Tulsa, people were taken aback. Why was this cultural trove...

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It is finally okay to teach and play jazz in New Orleans public schools

John Fea   |  March 25, 2022

Here is Juliette Arcodia at NBC News: New Orleans has long been known as the birthplace of jazz music, but for exactly a century that genre has been technically forbidden in the entire public school system. The rule was added...

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