CSPAN3 Founding Era Music And Politics January 30, 2016
Professor wood this is my first visit to smu, my first visit to dallas. Its a beautiful campus and i hope i have a chance to come back sometime. Tonight, we will explore some of the uses of music in the politics of the early american republic. Music mattered in the early u. S. , even though the musical arts were not well developed here. In Thomas Jeffersons view, music in america was in a state of deplorable barbarism. At the most basic level, political music used to rally support, but what americans used music to rally support for very considerably very considerably. Varied considerably. It c...