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Some historical context on the Jason Aldean controversy
Here is historian Nicole Hemmer at CNN: It was mid-November 1927 when, at a Tennessee courthouse wrapped in patriotic decor to celebrate Armistice Day, a White mob seized a Black teenager named Henry Choate and hanged him from the building’s balcony. The...
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President of South Korea sings “American Pie”
Here is South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol performing the Don McClean classic last night in the White House:...
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The Senate loves Taylor Swift
During today’s the bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Ticketmaster, several United Senate senators quoted Taylor Swift lyrics: Watch:...
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Jim Cullen on Bruce Springsteen’s first album
Columbia Records released Greetings from Asbury Park on January 5, 1973. Jim Cullen, the dean of Springsteen scholars, reflects at The Washington Post: Fifty years ago this week, a scruffy young artist from New Jersey released his first album. In...
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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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Episode 106: “Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Long Walk Home'”
In this episode we chat with historian Jonathan D. Cohen about his edited collection Long Walk Home: Reflections on Bruce Springsteen and the current state of “Springsteen Studies.” We also ask Cohen if there is any connection between his current book, For a Dollar...
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On the value of music in the history classroom
Twenty-two years ago, when I regularly taught the second half of the United States history survey (I’ve never taught it at Messiah University), I used a lot of music in class. I still have a small CD collection from those...
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