Professor Sheryl Kaskowitz
Tue, March 3rd, 2015
4:30 pm
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Join Dr. Sheryl Kaskowitz, a scholar of American music, for a presentation and discussion of her first book, God Bless America: The Surprising History of an Iconic Song (Oxford University Press, 2013).
More information on Dr. Kaskowitz and her research can be found here: http://gba.sherylkaskowitz.com/
“Sheryl Kaskowitz has constructed an engaging portrait of how the song infiltrated patriotism, business and sports. She skillfully traces the mixture of myth and reality that gathered around ‘God Bless America’ from the moment of its identification with the popular singer Kate Smith.”
— a review of God Bless America in the Washington Post by Louis L. Gould
“A model of song biography. From the mountains to the prairies to tht White House to the ballpark, Kaskowitz’s ‘surprising history’ offers a compelling journey into the complicated and contradictory American soul.”
–Jeffrey Magee, author of Irving Berlin’s American Musical Theater