{"id":9623,"date":"2023-04-13T13:37:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/13\/super-mario-bros-theme-to-become-first-video-game-music-in-us-library-of-congress\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:37:19","slug":"super-mario-bros-theme-to-become-first-video-game-music-in-us-library-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/13\/super-mario-bros-theme-to-become-first-video-game-music-in-us-library-of-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Bros theme to become first video game music in US Library of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recording archive to include 25 more items among \u2018defining sounds of nation\u2019s history\u2019, including Madonna\u2019s Like a Virgin<\/p>\n<p>The original 1985 theme from Super Mario Bros, Mariah Carey\u2019s All I Want for Christmas is You and Madonna\u2019s 1984 album Like a Virgin are among \u201cthe defining sounds of the nation\u2019s history and culture\u201d to be given places in the US national recording registry, the Library of Congress has announced.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Mario Bros music, officially known as the Ground Theme, written by the young Nintendo composer Koji Kondo, becomes the first music from a video game to enter the registry, which the library called \u201cthe most recognisable video game theme in history\u201d. The tune has appeared in countless Mario-related incarnations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2023\/apr\/12\/super-mario-bros-theme-to-become-first-video-game-music-in-us-library-of-congress\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/74f3374b16a54aab71fecd53c5dd6665e962bfc6\/0_0_4455_2674\/master\/4455.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b15e6d34c4a189667b4b04a19711c330\" title=\"Super Mario Bros theme to become first video game music in US Library of Congress\" \/>Recording archive to include 25 more items among \u2018defining sounds of nation\u2019s history\u2019, including Madonna\u2019s Like a Virgin<br \/>\nThe original 1985 theme from Super Mario Bros, Mariah Carey\u2019s All I Want for Christmas is You and Madonna\u2019s 1984 album Like a Virgin are among \u201cthe defining sounds of the nation\u2019s history and culture\u201d to be given places in the US national recording registry, the Library of Congress has announced.<br \/>\nThe Super Mario Bros music, officially known as the Ground Theme, written by the young Nintendo composer Koji Kondo, becomes the first music from a video game to enter the registry, which the library called \u201cthe most recognisable video game theme in history\u201d. The tune has appeared in countless Mario-related incarnations. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording archive to include 25 more items among \u2018defining sounds of nation\u2019s history\u2019, including Madonna\u2019s Like a Virgin The original 1985 theme from Super Mario Bros, Mariah Carey\u2019s All I Want for Christmas is You and Madonna\u2019s 1984 album Like a Virgin are among \u201cthe defining sounds of the nation\u2019s history and culture\u201d to be &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/13\/super-mario-bros-theme-to-become-first-video-game-music-in-us-library-of-congress\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Super Mario Bros theme to become first video game music in US Library of Congress<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}