National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music / / by Peter Grant
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| Autore: |
Grant Peter
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| Titolo: |
National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music / / by Peter Grant
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2017. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (XI, 303 p. 22 illus.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.09 |
| Soggetto topico: | Civilization—History |
| Music | |
| Historiography | |
| Europe—History | |
| Military history | |
| Cultural History | |
| Memory Studies | |
| European History | |
| History of Military | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Music |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music |
| ISBN: | 1-137-60139-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154844403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Subcultures and Popular Music, . 2730-9517