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This special focuses on songs from the home front to the foxholes of World War II by some of America's greatest composers and lyricists -- songs that…
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3/21 Program 2012The “double song” was Irving Berlin’s term for a contrapuntal duet—two separate melodies with different lyrics that somehow fit together…
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2/1 Episode #2005Irving Berlin began his career by writing ragtime songs. He learned to write songs by writing them and publishing them, and seeing what…
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Episode #19318/3 Protest Pop Popular songs set out to sell copies by being entertaining and reassuring. If you want upheaval, you contact Woody Guthrie…
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Episode # 19256/22 Two Cheers A musical but jaundiced view of American life and American democracy. Freedom may be precious but it can also get you in a…
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Episode #174310/21 Irving Berlin wrote the double songs everybody knows, so here are some others, often overlooked.Some of Berlin’s greatest legacies are…