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How the Great American Songbook Helped America ...
By 1940, about 80 percent of American households owned a radio. For the first time in history, music could reach almost the entire country at once. Families gathered in living...
How the Great American Songbook Helped America ...
By 1940, about 80 percent of American households owned a radio. For the first time in history, music could reach almost the entire country at once. Families gathered in living...
The Secret Life of V-Discs
A Hidden History America's Wartime Music Problem By the summer of 1942, America had a music problem. The country had just entered World War II. Millions of Americans were serving...
The Secret Life of V-Discs
A Hidden History America's Wartime Music Problem By the summer of 1942, America had a music problem. The country had just entered World War II. Millions of Americans were serving...
America at 250: The Songs That Held Us Together
There's a theory of American history that goes something like this: the country holds together because of its founding documents, its institutions, and its laws. That's certainly part of the...
America at 250: The Songs That Held Us Together
There's a theory of American history that goes something like this: the country holds together because of its founding documents, its institutions, and its laws. That's certainly part of the...
Get Your Kicks: The Song That Turned the Road I...
Bobby Troup was twenty-seven years old, freshly discharged from the Marines, sitting in a Buick convertible somewhere in Pennsylvania when his wife Cynthia said the words that would change American...
Get Your Kicks: The Song That Turned the Road I...
Bobby Troup was twenty-seven years old, freshly discharged from the Marines, sitting in a Buick convertible somewhere in Pennsylvania when his wife Cynthia said the words that would change American...
A Love Letter to the Cocktail Napkin (and Its U...
Nobody has ever walked into a party and thought “phew, the cocktail napkins are here,” or admired a perfectly set table with stackable coffee cups lined up like they’re part...
A Love Letter to the Cocktail Napkin (and Its U...
Nobody has ever walked into a party and thought “phew, the cocktail napkins are here,” or admired a perfectly set table with stackable coffee cups lined up like they’re part...
Spring, Love, and a Little Bit of Heartache: Ro...
There’s a particular kind of magic that arrives in New York each spring. A loosening, a lightness, the sense that something might begin again just by turning the corner. It’s...
Spring, Love, and a Little Bit of Heartache: Ro...
There’s a particular kind of magic that arrives in New York each spring. A loosening, a lightness, the sense that something might begin again just by turning the corner. It’s...