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SC250 Charleston concert to highlight Revolutionary War-era music across cultures

SULLIVAN’S ISLAND — As the 250th anniversary of American independence approaches, The Island Club will offer Revolutionary War-era music across cultures in a pair of concerts on June 20. “Life, ...
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‘I won’t work on a more important film,’ says Ken Burns about ‘American Revolution’ series

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein “didn’t realize for a long time” that the release of their upcoming six-episode series on the American Revolution would line up with the 250th ...

How a box set from 1964 attempted to capture the sweep of American music from the colonial era to the counterculture

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States. European music was heard in the New World from the earliest ...