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Author Watkins, Glenn, 1927-

Title Proof through the night : music and the great war / Glenn Watkins.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003

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 Talbott Media  ML197 .W285 2003    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML197 .W285 2003    Available  ---
Description xvi, 598 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
Description 1.4 m/s
digital recording
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-573) and index.
Contents List of CD contents: p. 597-598.
Prologue. In search of Kultur -- Great Britain. Pomp and circumstance ; The old lie ; The symphony of the front -- France. Mobilization and the call to history ; War and the children ; War games, 1914-1915 ; Charades and masquerades ; Church, state, and schola ; Neoclassicism, aviation, and the Great War -- Italy. The world of the future, the future of the world -- Germany-Austria. "Dance of death" ; "The last days of mankind" -- The United States of America. "The Yanks are coming" ; "Onward Christian soldiers" ; The 100% American ; "Proof through the night" ; "On patrol in no man's land" ; Coming of age in America -- Post-Armistice. "Goin' home" ; Ceremonials and the war of nerves ; The persistence of memory ; Prophecies and alarms -- Epilogue. Unfinished business.
Subject World War, 1914-1918 -- Music and the war.
World War (1914-1918)
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Sound recordings.
Sound recordings.
ISBN 0520231589 Cloth alkaline paper