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 could be used to animate goodwill and harmony, or it could also energize scorn. These songs were easily learned by ear. Songs also served as a kind of shorthand, because the melodies were easily recognized, a couple measures could evoke a whole set of political debate. In their favor, songs could be performed collectively quite a different experience from listening to a speech. And through various
State of deplorable barbarism. It was used to rally support, but what americans used music to rally support for very considerably. Or it could also energize scorn. These songs were easily learned byear. By ear. Songs also served as a kind of shorthand because the melodies were easily recognized, a couple measures could evoke a whole set of political debate. Also, songs could be performed collectively, quite a different experience from listening to a speech. And through various modes, songs could evoke different kinds of emotion. For all of these reasons, the chief medical factions of today had their own songs. Such uses of music were not unique to the early republic, but could be found across many times and places. There were ways that music played a special or distinctive role in early u. S. Culture and can help us and the discipline of musicology can help us discover them. Musicologists study music in many different ways, most fundamentally for our purposes tonight, historical musico
Reform in Tea Party Nation all agree with us. While radio touts a nonbinding resolution, congressional leaders from both parties are working on real legislation to resolve this issue. Any copyright performed simply must include a radio performance right. To resolve this and other issues, we support several thoughtful bills. This would insist if broadcasters value the content they must value the content of others. This w0u8d remove the loophole. Now i had time for a unified holistic approach to music licensing and time for a music omnibus bill or music bus for short. Where kwoip write review under way, we need our industry in congress to be visionary and created a unified approach for the future of our business and the music bus idea is really simple. Fair market pay for all music creators across all platforms. And a music only hi bus bill need not wait for the entire copyright act to be advised. Congress registers maria polenti noted these issues are ripe for resolution. Mr. Chairman,
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Minutes. Melissa has breaking news. Breaking news 66 west at the beltway, take a look chopper 4 just got over the scene. We have the two right lanes blocked just outside of the beltway. So you can see it is jammed as folks are trying to get on 266 westbound there. And as chopper 4 pulls out you can see the volume already building here. Beltway at branch avenue everything rolling along nicely there. But again, you can see a little bit of a sheen on the roadway as amelia has been telling us about some precipitation here for us this morning. Silver and orange line delays in both directions. Those are still hanging around for us. Wide look at things overall no major problems when youre taking a look at the beltway at least. Again, 66 we do have that problem right here, we can see a little bit of yellow westbound there at the beltway from that crash. 66 eastbound through manassas, a tad slow. And 95 northbound through dale city a little slow, as well. Ill be back with travel times. A develo