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Tag Archives: popular music
Whose side are you on?
There was a new arrival in the Music Department at the UL, this week: a copy of Carl Wilhelm’s famous song, Wacht am Rhein, translated here, by Henry Brougham Farnie, as The Watch by the Rhine, or as it is … Continue reading
A different track
This week, I have been busy laying out a small exhibition in the Anderson Room to commemorate the start of the Second World War. I had a very clear idea in my head of what I was going to do … Continue reading
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Tagged anniversaries, legal deposit, popular music, second world war, To celebrate to commemorate
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Minstrels
Music can be a great resource for researching your family tree, especially if you have ancestors, who were involved in popular music. I was reminded of this the other day when I received an email from a reader, who was … Continue reading
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Tagged Fuller family, genealogy, Mohawk minstrels, popular music, songs
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To celebrate, to commemorate: A long weekend
It’s not as though music festivals are a new thing. The Proms will celebrate their 125th birthday in their current form next year, while the Bayreuth Festival is even earlier dating back to 1876. A programme for the “Dr. Who” … Continue reading
One small step…or 50 years ago (almost) today
One of my very earliest memories is sitting underneath the table in our living-room when I was a tiny child. It was the middle of the night, I’m sure I’d never been up so late before. The reason I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo 11, exploration, music, popular music, Space, To celebrate to commemorate
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Musical maps
A conversation with a reader the other day about street pianos led to me stumbling across this. Mapping the ‘Play me, I’m yours‘ street piano project, the site records the locations of street pianos past and present. It is also … Continue reading
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Tagged folk music, maps, popular music, sound archives, Sound recordings
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Songs of desolation II
In last week’s blog post we looked at the popular music that was being published in Britain during the first half of the First World War. By 1916, songs published in the UK were moving away from the more militaristic … Continue reading
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Tagged First world war, popular music, popular song, social history
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