POP，LIFE，RETROSPECT - 1941

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6/22/1941, 德國進攻蘇維埃。

12/07/1941，日本偷襲夏威夷珍珠港。美國正式宣布進入第二次時間大戰。
1941年12月7日晨（夏威夷時間），日本未經宣戰，偷襲美軍基地珍珠港，太平洋戰爭爆發。當日，日本在2個小時內出動350餘架飛機突然襲擊夏威夷珍珠港的美軍基地，炸沉炸傷美軍艦艇40餘艘，炸毀飛機200多架，斃傷美軍4000多人，美軍主力戰艦“亞利桑那”號被擊中沉沒，艦上1177名將士全部殉難。

美軍主力戰艦“亞利桑那”號被擊中後開始沉沒的情景

01/20/1941，羅斯福就職第三任美國總統。
他是第一個也是唯一連任三屆的總統(01/25/1945，羅斯福繼任第屆總統)

01/06/1941，羅斯福闡明 “四個自由” -

Four Freedoms. In his message to Congress proposing lend-lease legislation (Jan. 6, 1941), President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated that Four Freedoms should prevail everywhere in the world—freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

藝
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Edward Hopper 完成名畫 Nighthawks.

細部：

體
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World Series
NY Yankees d. Brooklyn Dodgers (4-1)

Stanley Cup
Boston d. Detroit (4-0)

音
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International trends

盲人古巴音樂巨人Arsenio Rodriguez開始了他身為最具影響力的拉丁歌手的統治期。
Arsenio Rodriguez為當時古巴最重要樂團的領導者 ,他在30-40年代間為古巴音樂的節奏寫下了重大改革..

我們來聽他的兩首歌

1. Poco Pelo

2. Adivinalo

An early pioneer of salsa music, in the '40s and early '50s, Arsenio Rodriguez led one of the most killer Cuban combos in the world. Many of their recordings still sound surprisingly modern, with sharp, melodic horn charts and fluid, expressive vocals. As a young child, Rodriguez was blinded when a horse kicked him in the head ，Arsenio was known as "El Ciego Maravilloso," the Blind Marvel (or the "marvelous blind guy," for the more literal among you). By reinventing the traditional Cuban son, Arsenio gave birth to a thoroughly rhythmic dance music, the precursor to salsa, which has since taken over the airwaves of much of the western hemisphere. he eventually became one of the most renowned bandleaders on the island. His music emphasized the Afro-Cuban rhythm as well as the melodic lead of the tres guitar, which he helped popularize. Although he had stints in the US, Rodriguez returned to Cuba as his home base. Unfortunately, his fortunes fell in the early '60s, and in 1971, Rodriguez died a poor man, living in obscurity in Los Angeles, California, just as his style of aggressive dance music was gaining its greatest popularity in the New York and Miami.

Music of the United States

Les Paul builds the first solid-body electric guitar

不是這把：)

Almanac Singers一支流行於四十年代的FOLK MUSIC組合

The Almanac Singers were a group of folk musicians who achieved brief popularity in the early 1940s. Members Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, and Woody Guthrie began playing together informally after Seeger and Hays had been playing at left-wing political functions for a time. Mainstream national success began after the American Youth Congress meeting in Washington D.C. in February of 1941. Others who sang with the group at various times included Sis Cunningham, Butch Hawes, Cisco Houston, Bess Lomax (Hawes), and Arthur Stern .

Politics and music remained closely intertwined with the members' political beliefs, which were far-left and occasionally led to controversial associations with the Communist Party USA. Their first release was an album called Songs for John Doe, would urged non-intervention in World War II, and was made with the help of Eric Bernay (of Keynote), Joe Thompson (of NBC), Nicholas Ray (future film director) and Alan Lomax (musicologist). The second album was Talking Union, a collection of labor songs, many of which were intensely anti-Roosevelt.

More recordings followed, but blacklisting and internal friction soon drove the group apart. Seeger and Hays founded communal homes called Almanac Houses, but the group fell apart soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor.