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  2. Protest songs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Tracy Grammer's song "Hey ho", from her 2005 album Flower of Avalon addresses how children are taught from a young age to play at war as soldiers with plastic guns, perpetuating the war machine: "Wave the flag and watch the news, tell us we can count on you. Mom and dad are marching too; children, step in line."

  3. 1750 in literature - Wikipedia

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    March – The Rambler is founded by Edward Cave; it lasts for 208 issues, and is mostly written by Samuel Johnson. [1]March 5 – Shakespeare's Richard II (in Colley Cibber's version) is presented at their theatre on Nassau Street (Manhattan) by Walter Murray and Thomas Kean, [2] the earliest known significant professional performance of Shakespeare in North America.

  4. Great American Songbook - Wikipedia

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    Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. According to the Great American Songbook Foundation: . The "Great American Songbook" is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of time in their life and legacy.

  5. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    The video for "November Rain" is loosely based on the short story "Without You". Axl Rose wrote the introduction to James's 1995 collection The Language of Fear, which included "Without You". [157] [158] "The Odyssey" The Odyssey: Symphony X: The Odyssey: Homer: A seven-part song based on Homer's The Odyssey [159] "Of Unsound Mind" Blessing in ...

  6. Chester (song) - Wikipedia

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    Bernard Herrmann quoted the tune prominently in his score for the Colonial Williamsburg orientation film, Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot. An instrumental version of the song was used as background music for CBS's Bicentennial Minutes segments. The HBO miniseries John Adams has a scene in episode 1 where a group of men sing this song together.

  7. Music history of the United States during the colonial era

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    The Bay Psalme Book (The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre) was published in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1640; it was the first book of any kind printed in the English colonies of North America. It became the standard used by New England churches for many years, though it contained no music itself, merely providing ...

  8. Oprah Winfrey: Life, influence and legacy - AOL

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    Books were her sanctuary, a means to escape a topsy-turvy home life filled with abuse and neglect. Her grandmother whipped her, her mother abandoned her and more than one family member sexually ...

  9. Music history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first song copyrighted under the new United States Constitution was "The Kentucky Volunteer", composed by a recent immigrant from England, Raynor Taylor, one of the first notable composers active in the US, and printed by the most prolific and notable musical publisher of the country's first decade, Benjamin Carr.