Mourning the passing of the melting pot that produced the Great American Songbook*


by David James
At a time when racial tensions have been inflamed in America, threatening to cause the country to descend into left-wing engineered chaos, it is worth recalling a fine example of how different cultures could be combined in a fruitful way: the Great American Songbook.
This is a body of music, compiled beginning in the early 20th century and lasting to about 1960, that represents one of the great traditions in Western music. The songs that have…

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