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Proof through the night : music and the great war /

Watkins's narrative argues that 20th-century Modernism was not launched full force with the advent of the Great War but rather was challenged by a new set of alternatives to the prewar avant-garde.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Watkins, Glenn, 1927-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of CD contents: p. 597-598.
  • List of illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • ch. 1. In search of kultur
  • Great Britain
  • ch. 2. Pomp and circumstance
  • ch. 3. The old lie
  • ch. 4. The symphony of the front
  • France
  • ch. 5. Mobilization and the call to history
  • ch. 6. War and the children
  • ch. 7. War games, 1914-1915
  • ch. 8. Charades and masquerades
  • ch. 9. Church, state, and schola
  • ch. 10. Neoclassicism, aviation, and the Great War
  • Italy
  • ch. 11. The world of the future, the future of the world
  • Germany-Austria
  • ch. 12. "Dance of death"
  • ch. 13. "The last days of mankind"
  • The United States of America
  • ch. 14. "The Yanks are coming"
  • ch. 15. "Onward Christian soldiers"
  • ch. 16. The 100% American
  • ch. 17. "Proof through the night"
  • ch. 18. "On patrol in no man's land"
  • ch. 19. Coming of age in America
  • Post-Armistice
  • ch. 20. "Goin' home"
  • ch. 21. Ceremonials and the war of nerves
  • ch. 22. The persistence of memory
  • ch. 23. Prophecies of alarms
  • Epilogue
  • ch. 24. Unfinished business
  • Notes
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index
  • List of CD contents.