Patriotic Music
By Claude Thomas | August 24, 2008
By Sturat Mitchel
Music has long been a powerful force in inspiring people and rousing their feelings to do something worthwhile, something huge, something constructive and even something patriotic. Music can be so influential that it can even influence itself, with a composition or a song being produced after being inspired from another composition or song.
One particular type of music that continues to fire the passions of people from all over the world are patriotic music. Perhaps no country right now is ever more concerned with patriotic music than America due to the upcoming presidential election. Even Hollywood politics are strongly felt in numerous presidential campaigns where celebrities support their respective candidates of choice.
The lyrics of Francis Scott Key’s Star Spangled Banner (1814), America’s national anthem continues to fuel the nationalistic spirit of the nation. Such patriotic music continues to be played in major events be in the fields of sports, entertainment, education and so forth.
Hollywood politics is very evident when it comes to the national anthem since most famous singers are invited to perform it like Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey among many others. The legendary African-American guitarist, Jimi Hendrix rendered an exceptional performance of it in 1969 at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.
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