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Jul 22, 2025When the nation-builders of the 19th century were seeking to form national identities after centuries of life as subdivisions of massive empires, it was to literature that they first... -
Feb 19, 2025When the phonograph was invented, the composer John Phillip Sousa was heartbroken. In a 1906 article on “The Menace of Mechanical Music,” he worried out loud that...
