Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I Brooks William
Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I Brooks William During the Great War, composers and performers created music that expressed common sentiments like…
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Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I Brooks William
During the Great War, composers and performers created music that expressed common sentiments like patriotism, grief, and anxiety. At times, music reaffirmed a commitment to the shared wartime mission. Yet music also revealed the complexities of the partnership between France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
Over Here, Over There examines how composition, performance, publication, recording, censorship, and policy shaped the Atlantic allies' musical response to the war. At other times, it reflected conflicting views about the war from one nation to another or within a single nation. 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 through transformations of the entertainment industry to the
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