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?