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Over here, over there : transatlantic conversations on the music of World War I / edited by William Brooks, Christina Bashford, and Gayle Magee.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Music and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Europe.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- During the Great War, composers and performers created music that expressed common sentiments like patriotism, grief, and anxiety. Yet music also revealed the complexities of the partnership between France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States. At times, music reaffirmed a commitment to the shared wartime mission. At other times, it reflected conflicting views about the war from one nation to another or within a single nation. Over Here, Over There examines how composition, performance, publication, recording, censorship, and policy shaped the Atlantic allies' musical response to the war. The first section of the collection offers studies of individuals. The second concentrates on communities, whether local, transnational, or on the spectrum in-between. Essay topics range from the sinking of the Lusitania to the influenza pandemic.
- Contents:
- Prelude : Beginnings / William Brooks, Christina Bashford, and Gayle Magee
- Part 1, Individuals: Medium and message : Frank Bridge's Lament for string orchestra and the sinking of the Lusitania (1915) / Christina Bashford. "Every man in New York" : Charles Ives and the First World War / Gayle Magee. Reflecting the public appetite in text and music : Debussy's act of wartime propaganda / Barbara L. Kelly. Profitable patriotism : John Philip Sousa and the Great War / Patrick Warfield. From the Great War to White Christmas : The long reach of Irving Berlin's Yip Yip Yaphank / Jeffrey Magee
- Interlude : The middle / William Brooks, Christina Bashford, and Gayle Magee
- Part 2, Communities: Tommy critics, an unlikely musical community, and the Longleat Lyre during World War I / Michelle Meinhart. Women at the pedals : female cinema musicians during the Great War / Kendra Preston Leonard. Empire, nation, and music : Canada's Dominion songbook / Brian C. Thompson. Of stars, soldiers, mothers, and mourning / William Brooks. The beginning of the end of something / Deniz Ertan
- Postlude : Not an end / William Brooks, Christina Bashford, and Gayle Magee.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 7, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 0-252-05156-4
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