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Tin Pan Alley on the march: popular music, World War II, and the quest for a great war song
In 1941, several months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a new Irving Berlin song appeared on jukeboxes across the United States. Berlin and his sponsors ......(Continue Reading) Songs of Protest
SONGS OF PROTEST Rhino Records CD (1991), $11.98. WORLD WAR I SONGS Volume 1 of 2 from Mark Best, www.besmark.com/ww1b.html. $11.95 for tape, $16.96 for CD, plus $3.95 shipping/handling. (The...(Continue Reading)Various Anthology of World Music: Pakistan, Vol 1 - Sound Recording Review
VARIOUS Anthology of World Music: Pakistan, Vol. 1 Rounder 5147 VARIOUS Anthology of World Music: Azerbaijan Rounder 5142 VARIOUS Anthology of World ......(Continue Reading)Big World: how Clear Channel programs America - War of the worlds: Part One
On July 17, 2002, as a band called The Boils was preparing to play, seven men with badges, police officers and agents of Philadelphia's Department of ......(Continue Reading)Can Vietnam awaken us again? Teaching the literature of the Vietnam War - 1
We must never forget that the Vietnam War created the most powerful antiwar movement in history. Even the Modern Language Association was shaken to its roots, making it sprout such forbidden fruit...(Continue Reading)
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