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Addie Joss: Baseball’s ‘great twirler’ remembered in song
The following is a guest post from Senior Music Specialist Susan Clermont. “Lots of ev’nings after dinner when I’m cuddled on his knee, He’ll tell me of the good men gone, that never more we’ll see; Of...
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“The Original Radio Girl” and her De Luxe Revue
Taylor McClaskie is one of the Music Division’s summer 2019 interns. She is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Case Western Reserve University and is currently writing a dissertation on music and...
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Star Trek: Two Versions of the Opening Theme
The following is a guest post from Music Cataloger Chris Holden: The Music Division holds two copies of the score for the theme song to Star Trek, the television show that aired from 1966 to 1969. The...
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And the Award Goes to…: Oscar-Nominated and Oscar-Winning Manuscript Scores...
Occurring unusually early this year, the Academy Awards will air this Sunday, February 9th. In honor of the ceremony, I’d like to share a little history of the evolution of the Academy’s music awards...
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Clifford Hayes, Ben Hunter, Earl McDonald, and the Louisville Jug Bands
The following is a guest post by Reader Services Technician Mary Joy Lamb. Clifford Hayes, “Bye Bye Blues” copyright deposit, 1928. Call number M1356.2.H, Music Division. While working as a technician...
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Music in Time of Pestilence, Part Two
The following is a guest post by Music Specialist Robert Lipartito. The third worldwide cholera pandemic reached America in the late 1840s. As the disease spread, following commerce from New Orleans...
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Let’s Get Away From It All: Natural Wonders
The following is the first in a series of three guest posts by Music Division Archivist Anita M. Weber. Stretch of highway 66 in Mohave County in Arizona, 2018, Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, Prints...
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Flashpoints: An American History Tour
The following is the second in a series of three guest posts by Music Division Archivist Anita M. Weber. See Part One, “Let’s Get Away From It All: Natural Wonders.” Not everyone likes a vacation...
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“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
Last month, reports surfaced that a previously-filed lawsuit against singer/songwriter Mariah Carey and co-writer Walter Afanasieff related to their Christmas smash hit, “All I want for Christmas is...
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Early Hip-Hop at the Library of Congress
August 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Hip-Hop, said to have begun in 1973 at a little South-Bronx party hosted by DJ Kool Herc. But years before Herc introduced New York to the breakbeat,...
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