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