{"product_id":"sounds-of-war-music-in-the-united-states-during-world-war-ii-9780199948031","title":"Sounds of War: Music in the United States During World War II","description":"What role did music play in the United States during World War II? How did composers reconcile the demands of their country and their art as America mobilized both militarily and culturally for war? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnnegret Fauser explores these and many other 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\u003cbr\u003emusic that truly distinguished musical life in the wartime United States. Classical music in 1940s America had a ubiquitous cultural presence--whether as an instrument of propaganda or a means of entertainment, recuperation, and uplift--that is hard to imagine today, and Fauser suggests that no\u003cbr\u003eother war enlisted culture in general and music in particular so consciously and unequivocally as World War II. Indeed, the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Group Theatre director Harold Clurman wrote to his cousin, Aaron Copland: So you're back in N.Y. . . ready to defend your country in her\u003cbr\u003ehour of need with lectures, books, symphonies! Copland was in fact involved in propaganda missions of the Office of War Information, as were Marc Blitzstein, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, Roy Harris, and Colin McPhee. It is the works of these musical greats--as well as many other American and\u003cbr\u003eexiled European composers who put their talents to patriotic purposes--that form the core of Fauser's enlightening account. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on music history, aesthetics, reception history, and cultural history, \u003cem\u003eSounds of War\u003c\/em\u003e recreates the remarkable sonic landscape of the World War II era and offers fresh insight to the role of music during wartime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annegret Fauser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.52h x 6.41w x 1.18d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199948031\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/17\/2013 pg. 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnnegret Fauser\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is author of \u003cem\u003eMusical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair\u003c\/em\u003e and co-editor of \u003cem\u003eMusic, Theater and Cultural Transfer: Paris 1813-1914.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40302935998579,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":47.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_abb7bef6-073f-4697-a2a5-85ebaf1e8080.jpg?v=1658842131","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/sounds-of-war-music-in-the-united-states-during-world-war-ii-9780199948031","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}