Music: MUS 309
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Music and Dance OnlineThis database includes recordings, scores, videos, and other useful content with a social context that may be useful to your research in this course
Books Related to War and Music
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Atomic Tunes by
ISBN: 9780253056177Publication Date: 2021-05-11In Atomic Tunes, Tim and Joanna Smolko explore everything from the serious to the comical, the morbid to the crude, showing the widespread concern among musicians coping with the effect of communism on American society and the threat of a nuclear conflict of global proportions. -
Battle Notes by
ISBN: 1886028052Publication Date: 2000-04-01This book is the only complete discography of all the music of the Vietnam era. Complied by history professor, Lee Andresen, the book details famous and infamous songs. It highlights obscure and unknown tunes. A tremendous source of accurate information. Relive the tunes of what the NYT called, Our first rock and roll war. A treasure for Vietnam vets. Many fun illustrations. -
Most German of the Arts by
ISBN: 9780300072280Publication Date: 1998-08-11This important book investigates the role played by German musicology in buttressing Nazi institutions and ideology. -
Singing Our Way to Victory by
ISBN: 9780819501387Publication Date: 2023-09-05Responding to the dearth of cultural studies of the First World War, Regina Sweeney's unique cross-disciplinary study illuminates many of the hitherto unexplored corners of an era that many historians consider to exhibit a break with recognizable trends. -
Sounds of War by
ISBN: 9780199948031Publication Date: 2013-05-21Annegret Fauser explores many 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. -
Victory Through Harmony by
ISBN: 9780195372014Publication Date: 2011-11-24To serve the British nation in World War II, the BBC charged itself with mobilizing popular music in support of Britain's war effort. -
We Gotta Get Out of This Place by
ISBN: 9781625341976Publication Date: 2015-10-21In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam.
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