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ISBN10: 0199948038, ISBN13: 9780199948031, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover What role did music play in the United States during World War II? How did composers reconcile the demands of their country and their art as America mobilized both militarily and culturally for war?Annegret Fauser explores these and many other questions in the first in-depth study of American concert music during World War II. While Dinah Shore, Duke Ellington, and the Andrew Sisters entertained civilians at home and G.I.s abroad with swing and boogie-woogie, Fauser shows it was classical music that truly distinguished musical life in the wartime United States. Classical music in 1940s America had a ubiquitous cultural presence--whether as an instrument of propaganda or a means of entertainment, recuperation, and uplift--that is hard to imagine today, and Fauser suggests that no other war enlisted culture in general and music in particular so consciously and unequivocally as World War II. Indeed, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Group Theatre director Harold Clurman wrote to his cousin, Aaron Copland: "So you're back in N.Y. . . ready to defend your country in her hour of need with lectures, books, symphonies!" Copland was in fact involved in propaganda missions of the Office of War Information, as were Marc Blitzstein, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, Roy Harris, and Colin McPhee. It is the works of these musical greats--as well as many other American and ex ...
NY Oxford University Press 2013 1st Hard Fine in Fine jacket 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford University Press, 2013, first printing. 8vo., xv+366pp., illustrated. Drawing on music history, aesthetics, reception history, and cultural history, Sounds of War recreates the remarkable sonic landscape of the World War II era and offers fresh insight to the role of music during wartime. Fine in fine dust jacket.
NY: Oxford University Press, Date: 2013. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford University Press, 2013, first printing. 8vo., xv+366pp., illustrated. Drawing on music history, aesthetics, reception history, and cultural history, Sounds of War recreates the remarkable sonic landscape of the World War II era and offers fresh insight to the role of music during wartime. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 2013. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199948038 9780199948031 [US]
ISBN10: 0199948038, ISBN13: 9780199948031, [publisher: Oxford University Press, NY] Hardcover First Edition First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Oxford University Press, 2013, first printing. 8vo., xv+366pp., illustrated. Drawing on music history, aesthetics, reception history, and cultural history, Sounds of War recreates the remarkable sonic landscape of the World War II era and offers fresh insight to the role of music during wartime. Fine in fine dust jacket. Size: 8vo [Granville, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2013]
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ISBN10: 0199948038, ISBN13: 9780199948031, [publisher: OUP USA 2013-05-30, New York] Hardcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2013]
ISBN10: 0199948038, ISBN13: 9780199948031, [publisher: OUP USA 2013-05-30, New York] Hardcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2013]
ISBN10: 0199948038, ISBN13: 9780199948031, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. What role did music play in the United States during World War II? How did composers reconcile the demands of their country and their art as America mobilized both militarily and culturally for war? Annegret Fauser explores these and many other questions in the first in-depth study of American concert music during World War II. While Dinah Shore, Duke Ellington, and the Andrew Sisters entertained civilians at home and G.I.s abroad with swing and boogie-woogie, Fauser shows it was classical music that truly distinguished musical life in the wartime United States. Classical music in 1940s America had a ubiquitous cultural presence--whether as an instrument of propaganda or a means of entertainment, recuperation, and uplift--that is hard to imagine today, and Fauser suggests that no other war enlisted culture in general and music in particular so consciously and unequivocally as World War II. Indeed, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Group Theatre director Harold Clurman wrote to his cousin, Aaron Copland: "So you're back in N.Y. . . ready to defend your country in her hour of need with lectures, books, symphonies!" Copland was in fact involved in propaganda missions of the Office of War Information, as were Marc Blitzstein, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, Roy Harris, and Colin McPhee. It is the works of these musical greats--as well as ...
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