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Sounds of war : music in the United States during World War II / Annegret Fauser.
LIBRA ML3917.U6 F38 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fauser, Annegret, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Music.
- Music--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Music and state--United States--History--20th century.
- Music and state.
- World War, 1939-1945--Music and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- History.
- Music--Social aspects.
- Music--Political aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 366 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 "We, as Musicians, Are Soldiers, Too..." 15
- Musicians in Uniform 18
- Performing for Victory 32
- Composition in the War Effort 54
- Cultural Mediators and Educators 64
- Chapter 2 "Shaping Music for Total War" 76
- Music in the Service of Propaganda: The Office of War Information 77
- Crossing Borders: Music, Diplomacy, and the State Department 94
- The Singing Army: Uplift and Education for a Nation 106
- Music Therapy and the "Reconditioning" of Soldiers 127
- Chapter 3 "I Hear America Singing..." 135
- Sounds of a Usable Past 138
- Salutes to American Folk Song 151
- Voicing Opera in America 161
- Chapter 4 "The Great Invasion" 178
- Living in Exile 180
- French Connections, Czech Identities 187
- Refugees from Axis Nations 202
- Chapter 5 "Hail Muse Americana!" 224
- Commemoration and Patriotic Celebration 227
- Celebrating the American Way 239
- New World Symphonies 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199948031
- 0199948038
- OCLC:
- 819383019
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