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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154844403321

Autore

Grant Peter

Titolo

National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music / / by Peter Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9781137601391

1137601396

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 303 p. 22 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music, , 2730-9525

Disciplina

306.09

Soggetti

Civilization - History

Music

Collective memory

Europe - History

Military history

Cultural History

Memory Studies

European History

Military History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. National Myth and the First World War -- 2. Remembrance, Memory and Popular Music -- 3. Words and Music -- 4. The Voice of the People -- 5. Butcher’s Tales and Gunner’s Dreams -- 6. Shrill Demented Choirs -- 7. Football in No-Man’s-Land -- 8. The Gospel according to St Wilfred -- 9. Bombazine Dolls and Orders from the Dead -- 10. Conclusion: Music and the Centenary.

Sommario/riassunto

This book looks at the role of popular music in constructing the myth of the First World War. Since the late 1950s over 1,500 popular songs from more than forty countries have been recorded that draw inspiration from the War. National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music takes an inter-disciplinary approach that locates popular music within the framework of ‘memory studies’ and analyses



how songwriters are influenced by their country’s ‘national myths’. How does popular music help form memory and remembrance of such an event? Why do some songwriters stick rigidly to culturally dominant forms of memory whereas others seek an oppositional or transnational perspective? The huge range of musical examples include the great chansonniers Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens; folk maestros including Al Stewart and Eric Bogle; the socially aware rock of The Kinks and Pink Floyd; metal legends Iron Maiden and Bolt Thrower and female iconoclasts Diamanda Galás and PJ Harvey.