POP，LIFE，RETROSPECT - 1941

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6/22/1941, 德国进攻苏维埃。

12/07/1941，日本偷袭夏威夷珍珠港。美国正式宣布进入第二次时间大战。
1941年12月7日晨（夏威夷时间），日本未经宣战，偷袭美军基地珍珠港，太平洋战争爆发。当日，日本在2个小时内出动350余架飞机突然袭击夏威夷珍珠港的美军基地，炸沉炸伤美军舰艇40余艘，炸毁飞机200多架，毙伤美军4000多人，美军主力战舰“亚利桑那”号被击中沉没，舰上1177名将士全部殉难。

美军主力战舰“亚利桑那”号被击中后开始沉没的情景

01/20/1941，罗斯福就职第三任美国总统。
他是第一个也是唯一连任三届的总统(01/25/1945，罗斯福继任第届总统)

01/06/1941，罗斯福阐明 “四个自由” -

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.

艺
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Edward Hopper 完成名画 Nighthawks.

细部：

体
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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

盲人古巴音乐巨人Arsenio Rodriguez开始了他身为最具影响力的拉丁歌手的统治期。
Arsenio Rodriguez为当时古巴最重要乐团的领导者 ,他在30-40年代间为古巴音乐的节奏写下了重大改革..

我们来听他的两首歌

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

不是这把：)

Almanac Singers一支流行于四十年代的FOLK MUSIC组合

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.