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Singing our way to victory : French cultural politics and music during the Great War / Regina M. Sweeney.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3489 .S94 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sweeney, Regina M., 1958-
- Series:
- Music/culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular music--France--1911-1920--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Political ballads and songs--France--History and criticism.
- Political ballads and songs.
- World War, 1914-1918--France--Music and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- France.
- Genre:
- Political ballads and songs.
- Physical Description:
- x, 355 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- A penetrating cross-disciplinary study of the cultural constructions of singing.
- Contents:
- Part I From a contested peace to a politically peaceful war
- Musical Pleasures, Pedagogy, and Politics
- A Chorus in Unison: The Ritual of National Mobilization
- Part II Conflicting Agendas
- The Censorship of Singing, from Music Hall to Trench
- The Eroticization of War: Representations of Sexuality and Violence
- Part III The Cultural Geography of War
- Musical Entertainment in Wartime Paris
- The French Army's "Theater of War"
- Entertainment at the Front: The Soldiers Go It Alone
- The Reinternationalization of Mass Culture and the Turn to Nostalgia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-347) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0819564540
- 0819564737
- OCLC:
- 45610435
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