Learn the fascinating history of The Star-Spangled Banner as we celebrate the 200th birthday of the USA's anthem. Visit http://t.co/8cAWjuLFOv for more.
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Good luck @usmusicscholar! May the cymbals crash and the trumpets flourish! And, of course, your #Wolverines win! #GoBlue
BETTER THAN A DREAM! Dress rehearsal for my #nationalanthem #BigHouse conducting debut with the @umichband. The hardest part is climbing the ladder without freakin'. Thanks to Dr. John Pasquale for the tips & #GoBlue @UMichAthletics #UMichArts
ALT @usmusicscholar saying hello to the MMB musicians!
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Full @aadl / @LiteratiBkstore #anthem event with host @RushOmari and soprano @jgoltzmusic will broadcast 4x per day on Sat. Aug. 20 and Sun. Aug. 28, then online on-demand. Thanks to @cspan and @cspanhistory. #UShistory #nationalanthem @wwnorton #UMichArts @spangledmusic
"The song is a living document..." @usmusicscholar talking about how the Star Spangled Banner lyrics are still relevant today. Hear more about the history of our national anthem, Saturday at 9am/pm ET on @cspan 2
O Say Can You Hear? — the exciting new anthem history by @usmusicscholar — is GREAT for your #bookclub. Get started with our suggestions and questions at starspangledmusic.org/anthem… #nationalanthem @wwnorton #UShistory @umichsmtd #democracy
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Congrats to @NEHgov #NEHPublicScholar Mark Clague (@usmusicscholar) on his new @wwnorton book “O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’”! #USHistory #HappyFourthOfJuly #BirthdayUSA #patriotism
Learn the fascinating story of America’s national anthem and examine its powerful meaning today, with #NEHPublicScholar Mark Clague’s (@usmusicscholar) new book, “O Say Can You Hear?” bit.ly/3xRuFFM
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SUNDAY: Q&A with @usmusicscholar Mark Clague on the history of the Star-Spangled Banner, its widespread use at sporting events, and renditions of it by Jimi Hendrix, Whitney Houston, Roseanne Barr and others – 8pm ET on C-SPAN c-span.org/video/?521218-1/q…
Great to see the pioneering research of @usmusicscholar receiving so much positive attention #USHistory #Patriotism #July4th
Who performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” best? The author of a book about the song reckons it was Whitney Houston at the Super Bowl in 1991—but salutes Jimi Hendrix’s rendition at Woodstock econ.st/3OiFFTr
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.@cspan author Q&A with @cspanSusan about my #anthembook airs Sunday 6/26 at 8pm and 11pm. See c-span.org/video/?521218-1/q… #UMichArts #USHistory
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Thanks to @StarTribune and historian Glenn Altschuler for the generous review of my new book 'O Say Can You Hear,' by Mark Clague startribune.com/review-o-say…
Congrats to @usmusicscholar and @wwnorton for this new book on the United States national #anthem. So many stories, insights, and new ideas about a song that is such a deep part of American life, yesterday and today. Hooray for #USHistory!!!
Happy #FlagDay! Today is the day my #anthem book is finally & OFFICIALLY released. I’ve updated my anthem history website with a new SSB lyrics database and there are #free musical examples for the book online. See starspangledmusic.org/o-say-… #UMichArts
ALT Cover of New Book by Mark Clague—"O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’"
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Both a thrill & honor to meet @Kaepernick7 to give him a copy of my anthem history “O Say Can You Hear?” in thanks for inspiring me to dig deeper into the song, its lyric, and its author. For me, protest is not unAmerican, but the ultimate patriotic act of both hope and devotion.
ALT Colin Kaepernick and musicologist Mark Clague
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Why you hear the national anthem before every NFL football game, including the #SuperBowl
By @usmusicscholar of @UMich
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Excited for Sunday’s #SuperBowl anthem by @MickeyGuyton! See theconversation.com/a-brief-… @spangledmusic #USA #BlackLivesMatter #NFLanthem #football
In 1884, women raised their voices to the tune of “The Star-Spangled Banner” to demand the #RightToVote and to argue that equality itself was patriotic. #19thamendment #WomensVote100 #equalitywins
See starspangledmusic.org/womens…
ALT An 1884 lyric, “The Equal-Rights Banner” argued musically that women’s suffrage was patriotic.
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In this Q&A @usmusicscholar from @umichsmtd discusses the history and significance of the U.S. national anthem, the lesser-known abolitionist Banner version, and the songs’ place in the history of American music and protest. @umichARTS
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A new arrangement of the US #anthem for #FourthofJuly2020 by American pianist Tony Lee that addresses both crisis and hope by quoting “We Shall Overcome” under the Anacreontic melody. starspangledmusic.org/new-an…
ALT American Pianist Tony Lee Performs His “Star-Spangled Banner"
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Great conversation with my #umicharts colleagues Louise Toppin and Naomi André about two American anthems—“The Star-Spangled Banner” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” @umichsmtd
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Correcting a false Francis Scott Key quote starspangledmusic.org/an-err… #ushistory #americanhistory #anthem
ALT Original source of the quote makes it clear that Key was talking about the opinions of others.
In solidarity with those decrying anti-black racism, the Star Spangled Music Foundation is making the 1921 edition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” available for free download at starspangledmusic.org/lift-e… #ArtofDemocracy #FightRacism #BlackLivesMatter
ALT James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson, creators of the song “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (1900)
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The #nationalanthem returns as a TV signoff with patriotic imagery as a call for #nationalunity at a time of crisis. Thanks! @juliarebeccaj @usmusicscholar
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Great that our recordings by @usmusicscholar are featured in @onthemedia interview w/ @seatedovation #anthemprotests starspangledmusic.org/poets-…
