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 ...

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Marian Anderson rejected fear and anger, choosing music and song as her response to the injustice of discrimination—building ...

Rechristened “The Star-Spangled Banner” soon thereafter, Key’s words were, within weeks, appearing in newspapers across the nation.

Artist Dan Deacon performed a controversial auto-tune version of the “Star Spangled Banner” before the first game of Thursday ...

Today the Baltimore Orioles played a home game against the New York Mets. For the “Star Spangled Banner,” Dan Deacon used his electronic flair to make his performance unique.

Baltimore musician Dan Deacon is making waves for his unconventional take on the national anthem—performed ahead of an ...

"I say let’s get rid of the racist-written, purloined, unsingable war-song-question and replace it with the lovely hymn about ...

Using a vocoder and heavily-layered harmonies, Deacon provided a strangely haunting rendition of the National Anthem.