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Article: IT'S ALL ABOUT `YANKEE DOODLE'.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 4, 1999
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Byline: CHRIS CAROLA Associated Press
RENSSELAER -- Think ``Yankee Doodle'' and images of Minutemen, the Spirit of '76 and James Cagney cavorting across a stage as George M. Cohan come to mind.
But the musical genealogy of the closest thing Americans have to a national fight song owes as much to colonial ethnic animosity as it does to patriotic fervor, according to a new book on ``Yankee Doodle.''
Stuart Murray, author of ``America's Song,'' says most scholarly works on ``Yankee Doodle'' virtually ignore the role Dutch-vs.-English conflict played in the song's genesis.
``They were missing the whole Dutch connection,'' says Murray, who ...