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University of Michigan musicology and American culture professor Mark Clague talked about the meaning of the four verses in The Star-Spangled Banner.
And this be our motto - “In God is our trust,” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The US national anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, is one of the world’s most iconic anthems. But what are the words and history?
In 1931, Congress passed a bill to make "The Star-Spangled Banner" the official national anthem of the United States.
Francis Scott Key wrote the Star-Spangled Banner during the War of 1812. He was a white supremacist like many others, and felt that blacks were morally and psychologically inferior and that ...
The Star Spangled Banner is not a great example of such a marriage. There are a great many issues with the lyric and they are as much the reason the song is difficult to sing as is the melody.
Jimi Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner brought the sounds of Vietnam to the crowd at Woodstock. But he wasn’t the only musician to reimagine the national anthem during a time of war.
The basics Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 during the War of ...
When you think of anthems, one really big one probably comes to mind. We’ve heard “Star Spangled Banner” a thousand times, but how did the song come to be known as the United States ...
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