National Anthem Protests, From ‘Jazzing the Banner’ to Taking a Knee

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🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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“The Star-Spangled Banner” has long been a site of dissent and disagreement. A conversation about the history of the anthem, and those who have protested it.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your Jersey hanging in the mama of
0:11.4	music and criticism. I'm your host John Caramonica. I'm going to do you know it all
0:23.0	and now now and now now now I'm going to be here. Oh, I'm not.
0:53.0	I'm right.
0:55.0	And then.
0:56.0	Oh, yeah.
0:57.0	Oh, yeah.
0:58.0	Oh, yeah.
1:00.0	Oh, yeah.
1:01.0	Oh, yeah. August 18th 1969 that is Jimmy Hendrix tackling in maybe more ways than one.
1:16.0	The National Anthem at Woodstock, one of the most iconic performances of the National
1:21.5	Anthem, and in a week where that song has become the
1:26.1	locus of so much controversy it seems like a good moment to maybe step back and
1:30.9	talk a little bit about the song, what its original intentions were,
1:35.6	what its meanings have been manipulated to be, and how people have interpreted it both positively
1:41.8	and with critique over the years. Hendrix being perhaps foremost
1:46.1	among them. So on this week's pop cast we're going to have some call-in guests to talk about the
1:52.4	National Anthem. First we're going to have Mark calling guests to talk about the national anthem.
1:53.8	First, we're going to have Mark Ferris.
1:55.6	Mark is a historian and author who has written a book
1:59.1	called Star Spangled Banner, the unlikely story
2:01.4	of America's National Anthem, and he is going to talk with us a little bit about the. the We are going to talk to Megan Lindsay.
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