ABOUT THE EVENT
Phoenixville Public Library will present an exclusive online musical event, “You’re the Cure for What Ails Me: Lovesickness and Its Many Antidotes in American Popular Song: A Lecture-in-Song”, on Tuesday, June 16 at 7:00 PM. Singer/pianist/lecturer Fred Miller will be the presenter. American Popular Song attained full flower in a half century span flanked by two World Wars with one devastating Great Depression thrown in between. The American public was in dire need of color and joy missing from their daily lives, and the great songwriters and performers of the age were just what the doctor ordered. On film and in song, the diagnosed malady was invariably “lovesickness” and the prescribed treatment was (what else?) love. Poverty, illness, unemployment, grief, war, despair: all too real for millions in those days. Romance, hope, optimism, humor, the realization of one’s dreams provided the welcome alternative, right there in the songs. Saturated with the metaphor of sickness & cure, American Popular Song’s greatest era is rife with medicinal/anatomical/therapeutic references all in service to Life and Love.
This event is free and open to the public, and will be held online via the CrowdCast platform. More information and a link for required registration can be found on the Adult Events Calendar at www.phoenixvillelibrary.org. E-mail mpinto@ccls.org for further information.
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