Popular Songs of WWI
byMusic has always been an expression not only of emotion, but of popular culture, and the outbreak of WWI was no small inspiration for…
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James Reese Europe’s Castle House Rag
byI am currently reading Reid Badger’s biography of James Reese Europe, A Life in Ragtime, and popped over to YouTube to see if someone…
Fascinating Women: Sissieretta Jones
byOpera singers were the world’s first pop stars, and the nineteenth century saw the apex of diva and divo worship, with hundreds of thousands…