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Singing, Soldiering, and Sheet Music in America during the First World War

Author: Christina Gier

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-10-19

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1498516017

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 about gender, soldiering and music, evince a more complex picture of society. This book presents a study of sheet music and military singing practices in America during the First World War that critically situates them in the social discourses, including issues of segregation and suffrage, and the historical context of the war. The transfer of musical styles between the civilian and military realm was fluid because so many men were enlisted from homes with the sheet music while they were also singing songs in their military training. Close musical analysis brings the meaningful musical and lyrical expressions of this time period to the forefront of our understanding of soldier and civilian music making at this time.

Music of the First World War

Author: Don Tyler

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Soldiers of Song

Author: Jason Wilson

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2012-11-06

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1554588820

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The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells—concert parties made up of fighting soldiers—were central to this process. Soldiers of Song tells their story. Lucky soldiers who could sing a song, perform a skit, or pass as a “lady,” were taken from the line and put onstage for the benefit of their soldier-audiences. The intent was to bolster morale and thereby help soldiers survive the war. The Dumbells’ popularity was not limited to troop shows along the trenches. The group also managed a run in London’s West End and became the first ever Canadian production to score a hit on Broadway. Touring Canada for some twelve years after the war, the Dumbells became a household name and made more than twenty-five audio recordings. If nationhood was won on the crest of Vimy Ridge, it was the Dumbells who provided the country with its earliest soundtrack. Pioneers of sketch comedy, the Dumbells are as important to the history of Canadian theatre as they are to the cultural history of early-twentieth-century Canada.

The Edge of Beyond

Author: Stephen Connock

Publisher:

Published: 2021-04

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780995628458

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Music of the First World War

Author: Don Tyler

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2016-03-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13:

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This book discusses WWI-era music in a historical context, explaining music's importance at home and abroad during WWI as well as examining what music was being sung, played, and danced to during the years prior to America's involvement in the Great War. Why was music so important to soldiers abroad during World War I? What role did music—ranging from classical to theater music, rags, and early jazz—play on the American homefront? Music of the First World War explores the tremendous importance of music during the years of the Great War—when communication technologies were extremely limited and music often took the place of connecting directly with loved ones or reminiscing via recorded images. The book's chapters cover music's contribution to the war effort; the variety of war-related songs, popular hits, and top recording artists of the war years; the music of Broadway shows and other theater productions; and important composers and lyricists. The author also explores the development of the fledgling recording industry at this time.

When this Bloody War is Over

Author: Max Arthur

Publisher: Piatkus Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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When this bloody war is over, No more soldiering for me. This book brings together the words - humorous, cynical, bitter, wistful - of the songs the soldiers of the First World War sang. The haunting songs of the First World War still have a powerful emotional impact; these are the words the soldiers actually sang - on the march, in the dug-outs and trenches - amidst the appalling carnage of the battlefield. The stoic courage and endurance of the ordinary soldiers shines through such songs as We are Fred Karno's Army, No More Soldiering for Me and It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary. Each song is introduced by Max Arthur, giving its historical background. Together with contemporary cartoons and drawings, this attractive, evocative book cannot fail to delight and move anyone with an interest in the First World War.

Over Here, Over There

Author: William Brooks

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2019-10-24

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 0252051564

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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 through transformations of the entertainment industry to the influenza pandemic.Contributors: Christina Bashford, William Brooks, Deniz Ertan, Barbara L. Kelly, Kendra Preston Leonard, Gayle Magee, Jeffrey Magee, Michelle Meinhart, Brian C. Thompson, and Patrick Warfield

George M!

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Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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National Theatre, Louis A. Lotito, managing director, James and Joseph Nederlander, George M. Steinbrenner, III and Elizabeth Ireland McCann present Darryl Hickman in "George M!" music and lyrics by George M. Cohan, book by Michael Stewart and John and Fran Pascal, lyric and musical revisions by Mary Cohan, musical supervision by Laurence Rosenthal, with Linda Larson, Pamela Peadon, Edie Cowan, Barbara Broughton, Jane Coleman, Frank De Sal, Tommy Breslin, John Beecher, Roger Braun and Ted Prichard, scenery by Tom John, costumes by Freddy Wittop, lighting by Martin Aronstein, musical direction by Charles Schneider, vocal arrangements by Jay Blackton, orchestrations by Philip J. Lang, production supervisor Joe Calvan, original produced on Broadway by David Black, Konrad Matthaei, and Lorin E. Price. entire production directed and choreographed by Joe Layton.

National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music

Author: Peter Grant

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-09

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 1137601396

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This book looks at the role of popular music in constructing the myth of the First World War. Since the late 1950s over 1,500 popular songs from more than forty countries have been recorded that draw inspiration from the War. National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music takes an inter-disciplinary approach that locates popular music within the framework of ‘memory studies’ and analyses how songwriters are influenced by their country’s ‘national myths’. How does popular music help form memory and remembrance of such an event? Why do some songwriters stick rigidly to culturally dominant forms of memory whereas others seek an oppositional or transnational perspective? The huge range of musical examples include the great chansonniers Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens; folk maestros including Al Stewart and Eric Bogle; the socially aware rock of The Kinks and Pink Floyd; metal legends Iron Maiden and Bolt Thrower and female iconoclasts Diamanda Galás and PJ Harvey.

Proof Through the Night

Author: Glenn Watkins

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 0520231589

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An entertaining cultural history of music during World War I, covering all the major European nations as well as the United States, in both classical and popular genres. The book is lavishly illustrated and includes a CD.