When the series returned to Boston, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee ordered “The Star Spangled Banner” played to open each game, according to author Marc Ferris’ cultural history of the anthem.

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 ...

One of the first musicians to interpret the “Star Spangled Banner” in a way that displayed a Black consciousness was the piano prodigy known as “Blind Tom.” ...

“The Star-Spangled Banner” was officially adopted as the ... Notoriously difficult to perform, the song has a history of both astounding successes and cringe-worthy failures (we are looking ...

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.

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an expression ... and many of the kings in the history plays — use “slave ...

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 ...

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Opera singer Christopher Macchio delivered a booming rendition of the national anthem at the Trump inauguration, raising a ...

Over the years “The Star-Spangled Banner” has been performed by a wide ... look at every national anthem performance in Super Bowl history. According to a report from the Brooklyn Daily ...

This month will be a period of transition in national politics, symbolized by the funeral of Jimmy Carter, the departure of Joe Biden and the inauguration of Donald Trump, which will occur on the ...