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From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Today, we bring you a show about the Star-Spangled Banner, the national anthem.

But we're having this conversation not to celebrate the nation, but to explore the complexities of patriotism in this fractured post-row moment in our country's trajectory.

Right now, we're listening to Jimmy Hendricks's

rendition, a shredding and rebuilding of the original song, which Mark Clegg says inspired him to

write the book, Oh, say can you hear a cultural biography of the anthem. Throughout American

history, Clegg writes, the star-spangled banner has asked and in turn helped to answer this fundamental question.

What does it mean to be an American?

We'll talk with Clegg and you about the curious persistence of this song, the protests enacted through it, and the contours of patriotism.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Mark Clegg's new book, O'Say Can You Hear, tells the strange story of how Francis Scottke's lyric, The Star-Spangled Banner, became the song Americans perform to recognize the nation.

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