It’s super common for a country to have a national anthem. That’s an official song that is sung at special events and is supposed to bring people together. The United States of America’s anthem is called The Star Spangled Banner. But it took a long time, and a lot of contests, to choose that song. Join Joy and co-host TK as they learn the history of this famously hard to sing song. Plus they tackle an all new First Things First.
Guest: Billy Coleman, Associate Director of the Kinder Institute, and historian who studies early American music and politics.

Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EVyP5dhxCqzuq2632zfIKFfYIrQ9XndD/view?usp=sharing">here</a> to read a transcript of this episode.

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