How the Cuban Missile Crisis inspired It's a Small World, and a cat tune sung by Peggy Lee had racist undertones – Arwa Haider traces the unexpected stories behind a century of Disney classics, decade by decade. has always been the true key to the Magic Kingdom. Around a century ago, Walt Disney declared his musical ethos to his team : "We should set a new pattern, a new way to use music – weave it into the story so that somebody doesn't just burst into song." Disney music feels woven into our life stories, too; its vast repertoire seeps into our consciousness from infancy; it casts a spell through our adulthood.

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