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America’s musical founding father: ‘Liberty songs’ by a self-taught singer and tanner helped fuel the Revolution
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An article about William Billings, an 18th-century self-taught singer and tanner who composed patriotic 'liberty songs' that helped mobilize support for the American Revolution, presented as part of broader efforts to offer a more inclusive historical narrative of American independence.
America’s musical founding father: ‘Liberty songs’ by a self-taught singer and tanner helped fuel the Revolution
Paul 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
As July 4, 2026, approaches, Americans will be paying more attention than usual to events of 1776: the year the American Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. Public historians, including filmmaker Ken Burns, have tried to offer a more inclusive view of the American Revolution, highlighting le
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