How did everyday Americans in the early United States use and enjoy music? How did they create and circulate new songs and musical lyrics?

Our five-episode series about music in early America continues in this fourth episode about music and politics in the early United States.

Billy Coleman, an Assistant Teaching Professor of History at the University of Missouri and author of the book Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788-1865, joins us to investigate the role music played in early American politics.

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