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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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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 598 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-573) and index.
Contents List of CD contents: p. 597-598.
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Prologue -- ch. 1. In search of kultur -- Great Britain -- ch. 2. Pomp and circumstance -- ch. 3. Old lie -- ch. 4. Symphony of the front -- France -- ch. 5. Mobilization and the call to history -- ch. 6. War and the children -- ch. 7. War games, 1914-1915 -- ch. 8. Charades and masquerades -- ch. 9. Church, state, and schola -- ch. 10. Neoclassicism, aviation, and the Great War -- Italy -- ch. 11. World of the future, the future of the world -- Germany-Austria -- ch. 12. "Dance of death" -- ch. 13. "The last days of mankind" -- United States of America -- ch. 14. "The Yanks are coming" -- ch. 15. "Onward Christian soldiers" -- ch. 16. The 100% American -- ch. 17. "Proof through the night" -- ch. 18. "On patrol in no man's land" -- ch. 19. Coming of age in America -- Post-Armistice -- ch. 20. "Goin' home" -- ch. 21. Ceremonials and the war of nerves -- ch. 22. Persistence of memory -- ch. 23. Prophecies of alarms -- Epilogue -- ch. 24. Unfinished business -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index -- List of CD contents.
Summary Watkins's narrative argues that 20th-century Modernism was not launched full force with the advent of the Great War but rather was challenged by a new set of alternatives to the prewar avant-garde.
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Subject World War (1914-1918)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Music and the war.
Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Music.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Watkins, Glenn, 1927- Proof through the night. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520231589 (DLC) 2002005967 (OCoLC)49619116
ISBN 9780520927896 (electronic book)
0520927893 (electronic book)
1417526130 (electronic book)
9781417526130 (electronic book)
0520231589 (Cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780520231580 (Cloth ; alkaline paper)
159734835X
9781597348355
128235650X
9781282356504