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. |
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
World War (1914-1918) |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Music and the war.
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Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Music. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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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) |
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0520927893 (electronic book) |
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1417526130 (electronic book) |
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9781417526130 (electronic book) |
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0520231589 (Cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520231580 (Cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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159734835X |
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9781597348355 |
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128235650X |
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9781282356504 |
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