Mr Clague reckons the greatest modern performance was by Whitney Houston at the Super Bowl in 1991 (pictured).

克拉格先生认为最伟大的现代表演是惠特尼休斯顿在 1991 年的超级碗比赛中（如图）。

Mr Clague, a music professor at the University of Michigan, has produced a thoughtful and elegant history of America's national anthem.

密歇根大学音乐教授克拉格先生创作了一部深思熟虑、优雅的美国国歌史。

Rather than proposing to tear down monuments to Key—as happened in San Francisco in 2020—or find a new anthem, Mr Clague embraces the vexed historical record.

Clague 先生并没有像 2020 年在旧金山那样提议拆除 Key 的纪念碑，也没有提议创作一首新的国歌，而是拥抱了令人烦恼的历史记录。

" Gentlemen, " said the rebels, " if we'd had your songs, we'd have licked you out of your boots! " Alongside the anthem's historical significance, Mr Clague explores its musicology.

“先生们，”叛乱者说，“如果我们有你们的歌曲，我们早就把你们从靴子里舔掉了！”除了这首国歌的历史意义外，克拉格先生还探讨了它的音乐学。