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“Sing a Song!” Bob McGrath and American music
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
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
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 Franklinās civil...
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A preview of the Bob Dylan Museum
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
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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