God Bless America : Tin Pan Alley Goes to War /

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After Pearl Harbor, Tin Pan Alley songwriters rushed to write the Great American War Song -- an ""Over There"" for World War II. The most popular songs, however, continued to be romantic ballads, escapist tunes, or novelty songs. To remedy the situation, the federal government cr...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Smith, Kathleen E. R.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Popular music.
Music and war.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Theory.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Musique et guerre.
Musique populaire > États-Unis > 1941-1950 > Histoire et critique.
World War, 1939-1945 > Music and the war.
Popular music > United States > 1941-1950 > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:After Pearl Harbor, Tin Pan Alley songwriters rushed to write the Great American War Song -- an ""Over There"" for World War II. The most popular songs, however, continued to be romantic ballads, escapist tunes, or novelty songs. To remedy the situation, the federal government created the National Wartime Music Committee, an advisory group of the Office of War Information (OWI), which outlined ""proper"" war songs, along with tips on how and what to write. The music business also formed its own Music War Committee to promote war songs. Neither group succeeded. The OWI hoped that Tin Pan Alley c.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780813159485

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