The Legend Lives On from The Chippewa: The Effect of Popular Music on Knowledge of Historical Events
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https://doi.org/10.58445/rars.3850Keywords:
Cultural Memory, Historical Events, Popular MusicAbstract
This paper uses Google Trends data to examine the link between music and cultural memory of historical events by cross referencing search patterns for the songs to search patterns for the historical event. This paper presents several factors that could contribute to a song being more or less effective at disseminating a historical message effectively and explores a more general audience than previous research in similar fields.
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