“Why is orchestra the way it is?” asks David Bruce. “And why has the line up not changed for 100 years ? Has it reached some state of perfection or just a dead end?”
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Estelle Caswell of Vox outlines trucker country music with country and folk music scholars Travis Stimeling and Nate Gibson. The video starts at a strange on-ramp, but soon gets up to cruising speed. Would have welcomed more discussion of clear channel AM radio stations and their overnight shows for long haul truckers, but a video that long might have exceeded drivers’ hourly limits.
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“The Birth of Hip-Hip,” narrated by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, from Black History in 2 Minutes (Or So).
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