musical history 
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
12/17/19
“Keepers of the Light”: A Musical History of the Boston Gay Men’s Chorus
by Bridget Keown
Music forms a critical part of every documented human culture, providing a functional and emotional form of communication.
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SOURCE: NPR
12/14/19
NPR Interviews Jonathan Rosenberg: 'Dangerous Melodies' Examines Classical Music And American Foreign Relations
Jonathan Rosenberg, a professor of history at Hunter College, has a new book that examines this phenomenon. It's called Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from The Great War through the Cold War.
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7/10/19
DJ Alan Freed: The Inventor of Rock and Roll
by Bruce Chadwick
Rock and Roll Man is a treasure house of entertainment history and the payola scandal.
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SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
1/15/19
Music in history: overcoming historians’ reluctance to tackle music as a source
by Matt Karush
What explains historians' aversion to using music as a source?
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