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America’s musical founding father: ‘Liberty songs’ by a self-taught singer and tanner helped fuel the Revolution

  • Written by David W. Stowe, Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
America’s musical founding father: ‘Liberty songs’ by a self-taught singer and tanner helped fuel the RevolutionPaul Revere made the engraving used in the frontispiece of 'The New-England Psalm-Singer,' a tune book William Billings published in 1770.John Carter Brown Library via Wikimedia Commons

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