Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics. Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort ...

The Motor City Madman kicked off the 2025 Texas legislative session by playing a few licks on an Austin street corner a block from the Capitol.

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the ...

This story begins and ends ... “No Official Version Exists of the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’” which traced the many versions of America’s official song. By one estimate, in 1935 there ...

Houston’s Bayou Bend: The Origin Story of Texan High Culture David ... the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an expression of racial hostility toward ...

Secondly, look at the song itself. The Star Spangled Banner is part of a poem about a battle that was significant in the American History, the War of 1812. The words describe a battle. With a ...

"The Star-Spangled Banner," a poem ... It's a beautiful song both for its simplicity — anyone can sing it — and for its intimacy. It doesn't tell a story about opposing forces, about battle ...

Jon Batiste—a native of Metairie, La.— will perform "The Star-Spangled Banner" before Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans. Batiste—a multitalented musician who works in the jazz, pop and R&B idioms—is a ...

But it may come as a surprise to some that the tune of The Star-Spangled Banner was written this side ... originally wrote the tune as a drinking song, with words written during a war between ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing ... Evancho performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Trump’s 2017 ...

The “Star-Spangled Banner ... behind the National Anthem. It also came days after the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol building, which largely contributed to the importance of the ...