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Sounds of War
Annegret Fauser
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Description for Sounds of War
Num Pages: 384 pages, 26 illustrations, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC6. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 764.
While music and musical life in Nazi Germany, Vichy France, Fascist Italy, and Stalinist Russia have been widely explored, concert music in the United States during World War II has remained markedly untouched. Music in this period - whether as an instrument of propaganda or as a means of entertainment, recuperation, and uplift - pervaded homes and concert halls, army camps and government buildings, hospitals and factories. Dinah Shore, Duke Ellington, and the Andrew Sisters entertained civilians at home and G.I.s stationed abroad with the sounds of swing and boogie-woogie. Yet, it was the role assigned specifically to classical music ... Read more
While music and musical life in Nazi Germany, Vichy France, Fascist Italy, and Stalinist Russia have been widely explored, concert music in the United States during World War II has remained markedly untouched. Music in this period - whether as an instrument of propaganda or as a means of entertainment, recuperation, and uplift - pervaded homes and concert halls, army camps and government buildings, hospitals and factories. Dinah Shore, Duke Ellington, and the Andrew Sisters entertained civilians at home and G.I.s stationed abroad with the sounds of swing and boogie-woogie. Yet, it was the role assigned specifically to classical music ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
386
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199948031
SKU
V9780199948031
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About Annegret Fauser
Annegret Fauser is Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. She is author of Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair (University of Rochester Press, 2005), and co-editor of Music, Theater and Cultural Transfer: Paris 1813-1914 (University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Reviews for Sounds of War
Annegret Fauser has devoted the recent phases of her distinguished career to exploring how circumstances of cultural contact affect the making of music ... Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II, extends this broadly contextual approach into the American orbit. It is a major contribution to the field.
Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Music & Letters
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