Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: "We, as Musicians, are Soldiers, too..."
Musicians in Uniform
Performing for Victory
Composition in the War Effort
Cultural Mediators and Educators
Chapter 2: "Shaping Music for Total War"
Music in the Service of Propaganda: The Office of War
Information
Crossing Borders: Music, Diplomacy, and the State Department
The Singing Army: Uplift and Education for a Nation
Music Therapy and the "Reconditioning" of Soldiers
Chapter 3: "I Hear America Singing..."
Sounds of a Usable Past
Salutes to American Folk Song
Voicing Opera in America
Chapter 4: "The Great Invasion"
Exile Experiences
French Connections, Czech Identities
Refugees from Axis Nations
Chapter 5: "Hail Muse Americana!"
Commemoration and Patriotic Celebration
Celebrating the American Way
New World Symphonies
Works Cited
Annegret Fauser is Professor of Music and Adjunct Professor of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is author of Musical Encounters at the 1889 Paris World's Fair and co-editor of Music, Theater and Cultural Transfer: Paris 1813-1914.
"Clear and well-researched, [this book draws] on a great many
archival sources... Recommended." --Choice
"[B]oth eminently readable and grounded in an astounding amount of
archival research. It is recommended to cultural historians and
musicians alike." --Journal of Cold War Studies
"Annegret Fauser has devoted the recent phases of her distinguished
career to exploring how circumstances of cultural contact affect
the making of music. . . . Her new book, Sounds of War: Music in
the United States during World War II, extends this broadly
contextual approach into the American orbit. It is a major
contribution to the field." -- Music and Letters
" [A] formidable book. It presents itself already as a benchmark
not only for research about music during World War II but also for
work on all music during all wars. . . . Fauser's book presents a
point of reference as much for questions of methodology as for its
empirical contributions, and not only for the history of the United
States." -- Transposition: Musique et Sciences Sociales
"Annegret Fauser looks beyond the commonplace memories of swing and
Sinatra, touching on the mainstream embrace of classical music by
way of addressing her main theme: the employment of "serious"
composers and musicians in the war effort." -- Milwaukee
Express
"Offers fascinating glimpses of classical music's place on the
front lines." --Notes
"Fauser's account promises to be definitive and serves general
cultural historians as well as musicologists. The evidence she has
gathered of the pervasive conviction of the importance of symphonic
music to the life of the nation and to people's daily lives
presents scholars with a great opportunity for further
study."--Journal of American Culture
"Fauser covers large amounts of repertoire and a multiplicity of
actors...[a] fascinating, valuable addition to teh scholarship on
'American Music,'...clearly illustrat[ing] the diversity,
complexity, and messiness contained under that label."--Journal of
the Society for American Music
"Sounds of War is an ambitious, meticulously researched book, which
provides a nuanced analysis of the multiple ways in which classical
music was repurposed as a 'weapon of war' ... The book also makes a
strong contribution to a growing literature on the part played by
different cultural forms in helping the Allies to construct and
express the ideals upon which they were fighting the war. In
explicit defiance of Nazi propaganda that represented the
United States as a 'barbaric country without culture or taste' (p.
86), classical music became an important symbol and expression of
American democracy. In establishing the various cultural meanings
that
surrounded wartime music, the book is thorough and convincing in
its treatment of musicians, officialdom, and other musical
producers." --H-Net
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