America Sings Of War

Author : John Roger Paas
Publisher : Harrassowitz
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Patriotic music
ISBN : 3447102780

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America Sings of War by John Roger Paas Pdf

During World War I, over 30,000 war songs were composed and copyrighted, with the prime motivation being commercial success. With eye-catching covers, clever titles, and engaging lyrics, these songs both reflected and helped to shape public opinion. Sung in parlors and halls, performed on vaudeville stages, and recorded for phonographs, they illuminate the change in Americans' reaction to the war from initial neutrality, to preparedness, to patriotic fervor. With printings sometimes surpassing one million copies, sheet music reached all segments of the population. The songs selected for this anthology including lyrics are arranged by year of publication and document thereby the evolution of the American public's attitude toward U.S. involvement in the war.

Author : Alfred Music
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993-05-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457495915

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America Sings by Alfred Music Pdf

This publication is great for schools, clubs, assemblies, camps and recreational groups. It is the perfect size for group singing, the perfect collection of almost 200 songs.

Author : Christina Gier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781498516013

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Singing, Soldiering, and Sheet Music in America during the First World War by Christina Gier Pdf

An advertisement in the sheet music of the song “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France” (1917) announces: “Music will help win the war!” This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the American engagement in the First World War. It was an idea both imagined and practiced, from military culture to sheet music writers, about the power of music to help create a strong military and national community in the face of the conflict; it appears straightforward. Nevertheless, the published sheet music, in addition to discourse about gender, soldiering and music, evince a more complex picture of society. This book presents a study of sheet music and military singing practices in America during the First World War that critically situates them in the social discourses, including issues of segregation and suffrage, and the historical context of the war. The transfer of musical styles between the civilian and military realm was fluid because so many men were enlisted from homes with the sheet music while they were also singing songs in their military training. Close musical analysis brings the meaningful musical and lyrical expressions of this time period to the forefront of our understanding of soldier and civilian music making at this time.

Author : JERRY SILVERMAN
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610650298

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America Sings! by JERRY SILVERMAN Pdf

America is clearly a land of song! In this fine collection, prolific Mel Bay author Jerry Silverman explores the dusty archives of songdom to rediscover golden treasures of bygone days. the book offers over 50 captivating American songs loosely classified as related to Home, Home Runs, and Heartbreak. All selections are arranged for piano and voice with complete lyrics and suggested guitar chords. Includes a historical essay by Russell Baker plus an introduction and commentary on many of the individual songs by the author.

Author : James Marten
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807877685

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Sing Not War by James Marten Pdf

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind. In Sing Not War, James Marten explores how the nineteenth century's "Greatest Generation" attempted to blend back into society and how their experiences were treated by nonveterans. Many soldiers, Marten reveals, had a much harder time reintegrating into their communities and returning to their civilian lives than has been previously understood. Although Civil War veterans were generally well taken care of during the Gilded Age, Marten argues that veterans lost control of their legacies, becoming best remembered as others wanted to remember them--for their service in the war and their postwar political activities. Marten finds that while southern veterans were venerated for their service to the Confederacy, Union veterans often encountered resentment and even outright hostility as they aged and made greater demands on the public purse. Drawing on letters, diaries, journals, memoirs, newspapers, and other sources, Sing Not War illustrates that during the Gilded Age "veteran" conjured up several conflicting images and invoked contradicting reactions. Deeply researched and vividly narrated, Marten's book counters the romanticized vision of the lives of Civil War veterans, bringing forth new information about how white veterans were treated and how they lived out their lives.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410348937

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A Study Guide for Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Earl Martin Pedersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Folk songs, English
ISBN : UCSD:31822037138500

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Hear America Sing by Earl Martin Pedersen Pdf

Author : United States. War Finance Division. Treasury Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131851466

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War Savings Radio Scripts for Schools at War by United States. War Finance Division. Treasury Department Pdf

Author : Tim Smolko,Joanna Smolko
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253056184

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Atomic Tunes by Tim Smolko,Joanna Smolko Pdf

What is the soundtrack for a nuclear war? During the Cold War, over 500 songs were written about nuclear weapons, fear of the Soviet Union, civil defense, bomb shelters, McCarthyism, uranium mining, the space race, espionage, the Berlin Wall, and glasnost. This music uncovers aspects of these world-changing events that documentaries and history books cannot. In Atomic Tunes, Tim and Joanna Smolko explore everything from the serious to the comical, the morbid to the crude, showing the widespread concern among musicians coping with the effect of communism on American society and the threat of a nuclear conflict of global proportions. Atomic Tunes presents a musical history of the Cold War, analyzing the songs that capture the fear of those who lived under the shadow of Stalin, Sputnik, mushroom clouds, and missiles.

Author : Kamarah, Sheikh Umarr
Publisher : Sierra Leonean Writers Series
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789991054278

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Singing in Exile and The Child of War by Kamarah, Sheikh Umarr Pdf

This collection of poems examines the causes of the African, specifically Sierra Leonean, condition, evaluates the African immigrant's situation in the West, hints at the role and culpability of corporate West in African wars and woes, and concludes that Africans must ultimately assume the responsibility of rebuilding their continent.

Author : J. Luz Sáenz
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 729 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623491512

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The World War I Diary of José de la Luz Sáenz by J. Luz Sáenz Pdf

“I am home, safe and sound, and reviewing all these memories as if in a dream. All of this pleases me. I have been faithful to my duty.” Thus José de la Luz Sáenz ends his account of his military service in France and Germany in 1918. Published in Spanish in 1933, his annotated book of diary entries and letters recounts not only his own war experiences but also those of his fellow Mexican Americans. A skilled and dedicated teacher in South Texas before and after the war, Sáenz’s patriotism, his keen observation of the discrimination he and his friends faced both at home and in the field, and his unwavering dedication to the cause of equality have for years made this book a valuable resource for scholars, though only ten copies are known to exist and it has never before been available in English. Equally clear in these pages are the astute reflections and fierce pride that spurred Sáenz and others to pursue the postwar organization of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). This English edition of one of only two known war diaries of a Mexican American in the Great War is translated with an introduction and annotation by noted Mexican American historian Emilio Zamora.

Author : James Fisher,Felicia Hardison Londré
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781538107867

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Historical Dictionary of American Theater by James Fisher,Felicia Hardison Londré Pdf

This book covers the history of theater as well as the literature of America from 1880-1930. The years covered by this volume features the rise of the popular stage in America from the years following the end of the Civil War to the Golden Age of Broadway, with an emphasis on its practitioners, including such diverse figures as William Gillette, Mrs. Fiske, George M. Cohan, Maude Adams, David Belasco, George Abbott, Clyde Fitch, Eugene O’Neill, Texas Guinan, Robert Edmond Jones, Jeanne Eagels, Susan Glaspell, The Adlers and the Barrymores, Tallulah Bankhead, Philip Barry, Maxwell Anderson, Mae West, Elmer Rice, Laurette Taylor, Eva Le Gallienne, and a score of others. Entries abound on plays of all kinds, from melodrama to the newly-embraced realistic style, ethnic works (Irish, Yiddish, etc.), and such diverse forms as vaudeville, circus, minstrel shows, temperance plays, etc. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of American Theater: Modernism covers the history of modernist American Theatre through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 2,000 cross-referenced entries on actors and actresses, directors, playwrights, producers, genres, notable plays and theatres. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the American Theater in its greatest era.

Author : Saverio
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781450087766

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Your Own Song To Sing by Saverio Pdf

AUTHOR UP CLOSE. I have been a contractor most of my adult life. This is actually a second career for me. Hopefully you have enjoyed many of my lyrics in this book. Some words I spelled wrong on purpose, I guess you know that by now. I did so the end of the word would have the effect I wanted; many lyricists do that. If by chance there are others, then shame on me and my spell check. Grammar never was my best subject. I’m married with six children and nine grandchildren. Working in any form has been my many hobbies. This is my first edition of Your Own Song to Sing. I will be doing additional editions, probably one a year for the next four or five years. Without writing any new material, I have enough to fill that many books, and yes, I’m still writing. Again I surely hope to see some of you that use my lyrics, if not on center stage when the awards come around. Meanwhile All Stay Well.—SAVERIO

Author : Hugo Frey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Community music
ISBN : UCSD:31822004721387

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America sings by Hugo Frey Pdf

Author : Charles M. Oliver
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781438108582

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Critical Companion to Walt Whitman by Charles M. Oliver Pdf

Presents a complete reference to the life and works of Walt Whitman.