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Singing, Soldiering, and Sheet Music in America during the First World War
Christina Gier
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Description for Singing, Soldiering, and Sheet Music in America during the First World War
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An advertisement in the sheet music of the song Goodbye Broadway, Hello France (1917) announces: Music will help win the war! This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the American engagement in the First World War. It was an idea both imagined and practiced, from military culture to sheet music writers, about the power of music to help create a strong military and national community in the face of the conflict; it appears straightforward. Nevertheless, the published sheet music, in addition to discourse ... Read more
An advertisement in the sheet music of the song Goodbye Broadway, Hello France (1917) announces: Music will help win the war! This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the American engagement in the First World War. It was an idea both imagined and practiced, from military culture to sheet music writers, about the power of music to help create a strong military and national community in the face of the conflict; it appears straightforward. Nevertheless, the published sheet music, in addition to discourse ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lexington Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781498516006
SKU
V9781498516006
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Ref
99-2
About Christina Gier
Christina Gier is associate professor of musicology at the University of Alberta
Reviews for Singing, Soldiering, and Sheet Music in America during the First World War
The first ever in-depth study of what Americans sang during World War I, Dr. Gier's book paints a vivid and exciting picture and provides a sophisticated explanation of the song repertoire and of the preoccupations of the US army's team of singing masters. Not to be missed.
John Mullen, The University of Rouen, author of Popular Song in Britain ... Read more
John Mullen, The University of Rouen, author of Popular Song in Britain ... Read more