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- ISBN
- 9781584654438
- Book Title
- Songs That Fought the War : Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Brandeis University Press
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Music, History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, General, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 364 Pages
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Poet Rod McKuen once observed that "1939-1945 was a terrible time for the world, but it was a glorious time for songs and fighter pilots." Anyone who was alive during World War II remembers with fondness the music of the period. Songs such as "I'll Be Seeing You," "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," "It's Been A Long, Long Time," and "Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition" became standards that are still around today. But what's most amazing about the popular songs of the war years is just how many there were. World War II was one of the most fertile periods of American popular songwriting; it was also the heyday of such "big bands" as those of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, and Harry James, and of vocalists such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Kitty Kallen, and, of course, the Andrews Sisters. This outpouring of music included romantic ballads, rhythm numbers, dance tunes, and novelty songs, and the war itself occasioned the writing, publishing, recording, and performance of thousands of war-inspired songs. Professionals wrote virtually all of the wartime songs we still sing today, but thousands of other numbers were written by inspired (or not-so-inspired) amateurs: men, women, and even children eager to express their patriotism through lyric and melody. Although a central part of home front popular culture during World War II, these war-related and war-inspired songs had never been systematically analyzed or interpreted. In The Songs That Fought The War, John Bush Jones examines hundreds of these tunes in the context of the times. He begins with a look at the contemporary music industry and the astonishing array of songwriters (including amateurs) prior to Pearl Harbor and during the war. Then he turns to songs written and popularized before Pearl Harbor, including tunes that touted isolationism and patriotism in the late 1930s, songs written by Americans about the European allies, and songs from England that became popular in the United States. Post-Pearl Harbor tunes included songs about the draft, enlistment, army life, national pride, and a few about wartime personalities such as FDR and MacArthur. Humorous songs about shortages, rationing, and Victory Gardens and sentimental ballads about boys abroad missing girls back home (and vice versa) expressed home front anxieties and efforts, not least of which was the German hit among both the Allies and the Axis, "Lili Marlene."
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Publisher
Brandeis University Press
ISBN-10
1584654430
ISBN-13
9781584654438
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53829834
Product Key Features
Book Title
Songs That Fought the War : Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, General, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Music, History
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ml3477.J68 2006
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"The Songs That Fought the War serves as a way to comprehend the immensity and impact of World War II on the American people . . . The result is a comprehensive thematic overview of the mindset of the American people and howwriters of popular music tried to document the collective understanding of their generation." --Indiana Magazine of History, " . . . scholars have too often ignored [the pool of popular song], which reveal the moods, the yearnings, the memories of the ordinary people . . . John Bush Jones's book is a valuable and even charming corrective to this scholarly neglect."--Vingtieme Siecle, "The Songs That Fought the War serves as a way to comprehend the immensity and impact of World War II on the American people . . . The result is a comprehensive thematic overview of the mindset of the American people and how\Rwriters of popular music tried to document the collective understanding of their generation." --Indiana Magazine of History, "Mr. Jones's approach is both thematic and chronological, beginning with music from before America entered the conflict . . . As young as he was, John Bush Jones remembers World War II on the home front. He was 5 at war's end but has vivid memories of meals under rationing, bombers dropping war-bond leaflets over his Chicago suburban neighborhood, and most of all, the music."--Chronicle of Higher Education
Table of Content
Preface * "When This Crazy World Is Sane Again" - The Setting for the Songs * "I Hear America Singing" - But Who Wrote All Those Songs? * "Over Here" - Prewar Isolationism, Patriotism, and Preparedness * "Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry On!" - The Allies and Us * "G. I. Jive" - The Draft, Enlistment, and Army Life * "Johnny, Get Your Gun Again" - From National Pride to Axis-Bashing * "There's An F. D. R. In Freedom" - The War's Faces and Places * "In The Army, In The Navy, In The Marines" - Saluting the Services * "Don't Forget There's A War Going On" - Pitching In and Coping on the Home Front * "Arm In Arm" - Wartime Romance * "A Boy In Khaki, A Girl In Lace" - The Servicemen Away, Their Girls Back Home * "It's Been A Long, Long Time" - Victory, Homecomings, the World after the War * Bibliography * Index of Song Titles * General Index
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-016247
Dewey Decimal
782.4215990973
Dewey Edition
22
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