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

Christina Gier (Autor)

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2016
230 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1601-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Military culture and sheet music writers understood music to have the power to help create a strong military and community in the face of conflict. This study of sheet music and military singing practices critically situates them in the context of the war and in social discourses, including issues of social change, segregation, and suffrage.

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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 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.

Autor

Christina Gier is associate professor of musicology at the University of Alberta

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Singing Pacifism and Preparedness—Sheet Music about the War 1914-1917Chapter 3: Song Leaders and “Music in the Camps,” November 1917 to June 1918Chapter 5: Song Leaders in the Navy in “Music in the Camps,” July to November 1918Chapter 7: Deciding Musical Morality—The Context of “Joan of Arc”Chapter 9: “Over the Top”—Masculinity and Fighting in SongChapter 10: Postwar “Music in the Camps” and Sheet Music

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.10.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 47 Illustrations including: - 47 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Singen / Musizieren
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: American Expeditionary Forces • First World War • military music • Music and Conflict • Music and Identity • music and war • sheet music • Soldiers singing • Song leader • Tin Pan Alley
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-1601-7 / 1498516017
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-1601-3 / 9781498516013