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- Title
Yankee Doodle and the Country Dance from Lexington to Yorktown.
- Authors
Dolle, Raymond F.
- Abstract
The article discusses the use of the song and dance routine "Yankee Doodle" in American history. It describes the use of the song by British Regular troops under general Hugh Percy to taunt American Minutemen during the American Revolutionary War, the appropriation of the song to mock British Regulars once the Americans started winning battles, and the ways Americans used the song to communicate ironic themes of cowardliness, naivete, and backwardness to the British. Other subjects under discussion include the use of the song by statesman Benjamin Franklin, the allusions to Puritan revolutionary Oliver Cromwell in the song, and the use of the song by Freemasons.
- Subjects
UNITED States; YANKEE Doodle (Dance); YANKEE Doodle (Music); AMERICAN Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 -- Songs &; music; FREEMASONS; CROMWELL, Oliver, 1599-1658; UNITED States music; FRANKLIN, Benjamin, 1706-1790; MUSIC history
- Publication
Early America Review, 2010, Vol 9, Issue 4, p6
- ISSN
1090-4247
- Publication type
Article