Popular Song in the First World War: An International Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138478466 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 270 str.

John Mullen

Opis

For the first time, song repertoires and musical industries from countries on both sides in the Great War as well as from neutral countries are analysed in one exciting volume. Experts from around the world bring to life the entertainment of a century ago, to show the role it played. The reader will meet the penniless lyricist, the theatre chain owner, the cross-dressing singer, fado composer, stage Scotsman or rhyming soldier, in this fascinating exploration of showbiz before the generalization of the gramophone. This work, accompanied by many links to online recordings, will allow the reader to glimpse the complex role of popular song in people’s lives in a period of total war.

O autorze

John Mullen is Professor at Rouen University. He is author of 'The Show Must Go On': Popular Song in Britain during the First World War (Ashgate 2015). He has published widely on questions of popular music between 1880 and 1920, and on the history and historiography of the First World War, and is also the editor of the French Journal of British Studies.