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WILLIAM ROBIN: ItвЂ™s a little bit on the bawdy side, but itвЂ™s not in any way a kind of drinking song.ДЄnd it was performed, actually, by a hired tenor who was a virtuoso, and that tune becomes widespread, first in the English culture and then it makes its way to the United States. When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian: That he their inspirer and patron would be

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To Anacreon in Heaven, where he sat in full glee, WILLIAM ROBIN: In between the dinner and the evening of singing, they commissioned John Stafford Smith, an English composer, to write what became known as вЂњThe Anacreontic Song.вЂќ This was called the Anacreontic Society, named for the Greek poet Anacreon. In the 1770s, there was a society, a kind of gentleman's music and dinner club of men who met in London and would get together for a performance, about a two-hour symphony orchestra concert, followed by a dinner, followed by an evening of singing songs together. Sometimes it was about using a familiar song to talk about current-day events, to spread the news to this old song that they already knew. WILLIAM ROBIN: No, absolutely, and itвЂ™s actually funny because the tradition was known as parities but parities werenвЂ™t necessarily always satirical. Sometimes these would be published in newspapers or in songsters, in collections of lyrics.Д«ROOKE GLADSTONE: Wait a minute, don't we have our own broadside master? WhatвЂ™s important to understand about the history of вЂњThe Star-Spangled BannerвЂќ is that thereвЂ™s a tradition in the English-speaking world between the 16th century and the 19th century of whatвЂ™s called the broadside ballad, songs that folks knew would be re-texted with new lyrics. WhatвЂ™s not really true is the pub song part. WILLIAM ROBIN: This song goes back to the 1770s in Britain. The second myth, if you know a little bit more about вЂњThe Star-Spangled BannerвЂќ you might say, oh but itвЂ™s actually a British drinking song. because thatвЂ™s part of this myth of вЂњThe Star-Spangled BannerвЂќ called the вЂњDefence of Fort McHenry,вЂќ so one myth, the idea that Francis Scott Key wrote a song or wrote a poem in 1814 called вЂњThe Star-Spangled Banner.вЂќ WILLIAM ROBIN: And he pens this poem, and IвЂ™m gonna come back to that part. Francis Scott Key aboard a ship in the Baltimore Harbor, come daybreak, the flag is still standing after this battle. WILLIAM ROBIN: Typically, we talk about the beginning of вЂњThe Star-Spangled BannerвЂќ being 1814. For instance, if we drill down into the rich history of the national anthem, we can see Colin Kaepernick as an heir to a long lineage of musical defiance. Will Robin, assistant professor of musicology at the University of Maryland, wrote last year in The New Yorker, that such symbols are always more complicated than their origin myths. BROOKE GLADSTONE:В Symbols that represent our nation are both potent and, yet, strangely personal.

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