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Re: Music for the second half of the US Survey - Voices Across Time This is an almost bizarre collection of popular music which tells us dang little about what people of all types listened to. The absence of King Oliver's and Louis Armstrong's recordings leaves me shaking my head. John Coltrane, anyone? Show tunes (surely Gershwin, Porter, Berlin, et. al., tell us something about what America was doing and thinking)? Acid rock? Disco? Why not "Tuxedo Junction"--surely a recording that sold 150,000 copies in a week, as we were coming out of the Great Depression--deserves a nod. Crosby--perhaps "Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?" Beiderbecke? Berrigan? Cannonball Adderley? Motown at its glossiest? Nothing popular from the 1945-1955? This collection tells a great deal more about the compilers than it does about Americans, Tim H. Blessing Professor of History and Political Science Alvernia University tim.blessing@alvernia.edu 610 796 8235
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