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"The Boston I Knew is Lying on the Ground:" Music, Memory, and Redevelopment in Boston
-Though conceived and recorded as novelty, Francis Whiting Hatch's 1965 LP Urban Redevelopment and other Swan Songs of Old Boston (Bert & I Records) captured a transitional moment - at the ground level - for one of America's oldest and most contested cities. Hatch came from a prosperous Boston family,...
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In Search of Home, Sweet Home, c. 1871
-Few songs of the British nineteenth century have had the staying power of ‘Home, Sweet Home’. With music by Henry Bishop and words by John Howard Payne, it first appeared in Clari; or, the Maid of Milan (1823) at London’s Covent Garden. The song remained in the repertory well into...