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Star-Spangled Banner: The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem. By Marc Ferris *. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. - God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song. By Sheryl Kaskowitz . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. - We Shall Overcome: Essays on a Great American Song. Edited by Victor V. Bobetsky . Lanham: MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2017

Mariana Whitmer
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Journal of the Society for American Music , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , May 2017 , pp. 215 - 223
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* Marc Ferris's name was originally misspelled online and in print. It has been corrected as above and a corrigendum has been published.

1 Examples of recent song biographies include Margolick, David, Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song (New York: Harper Perennial, 2001)Google Scholar; Greenwood, Lee and McLin, Gwen, God Bless the U.S.A.: Biography of a Song (Gretna, LA: Pelican, 2001)Google Scholar; Bond, Julian and Wilson, Sondra Kathryn, eds., Lift Every Voice and Sing: A Celebration of the Negro National Anthem (New York: Random House, 2001)Google Scholar; Branham, Robert James and Hartnett, Stephen J., Sweet Freedom's Song: My Country ’Tis of Thee and Democracy in America by (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)Google Scholar; Turner, Steve, Amazing Grace: The Story of America's Most Beloved Song (New York: Harper Collins, 2009)Google Scholar; Santelli, Robert, This Land Is Your Land: Journey of an American Folksong (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2012)Google Scholar.

2 Ferris's book is subtitled “The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem,” and Kaskotwitz's is subtitled “The Surprising History of an Iconic Song.” Chapter 1 of Bobetsky's collection is titled “The Complex Ancestry of ‘We Shall Overcome.’” Emphasis added.

3 Steve Wyche, “Colin Kaepernick Explains Why He Sat during the National Anthem,” NFL News, last modified 28 August 2016, http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000691077/article/colin-kaepernick-explains-why-he-sat-during-national-anthem.

4 Irving Berlin, quoted in Kaskowitz, God Bless America, 5.

5 See also Bobetsky, Victor V., “A Symposium Brings Research to Life Through Choral Performance,” Choral Journal 56, no. 2 (2015): 22–31 Google Scholar.

6 Rosenthal, Rob and Rosenthal, Sam, eds., Pete Seeger: In His Own Words (New York: Routledge, 2016)Google Scholar.