[MUSIC] Five music links: The Music Man, Raine Maida, David Bowie, 70s, Erland Cooper

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• JSTOR Daily reports on how the 1962 movie The Music Man, based on the earlier musical, became a major Cold War export of the US even as small-town America was changing.


• This Global News interview with Raine Maida, lead singer of Our Lady Peace, makes me positive-nostalgic for the 1990s.
  
• NPR reported on the discovery of David Bowie's first demo, from 1963, some time ago, but this still amazes me.


• At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox took a look at the 1970s song "Hot Child in the City".


• The Island Review interviewed multi-instrumentalist Erland Cooper and shared some of his music, inspired by the culture and the sound of the Orkneys.