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 Galas and PJ Harvey.
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