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Tag Archives: Club Nouveau

Let’s ditch “The Star-Spangled Banner” and make “Lean On Me” our national anthem instead

Over the summer, with the BLM protests raging, my fellow music educators were doing a lot of soul-searching about the more problematic items in the traditional repertoire. The conversation inevitably turned toward “The Star-Spangled Banner,” with some questions about its appropriateness as a national anthem. Francis Scott Key owned slaves, and the third verse of …

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Posted byEthanNovember 16, 2020December 29, 2020Posted inKey Musicians, Music, PoliticsTags: America, Bill Withers, blue notes, blues, Club Nouveau, drumming, Francis Scott Key, funk, harmony, James Gadson, politics, songwriting, soul, syncopation, whiteness11 Comments on Let’s ditch “The Star-Spangled Banner” and make “Lean On Me” our national anthem instead
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