Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War: 'An Old Man's Tears'

by Michael J.K. Walsh

Book Overview

Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs that deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda' and 'No Man's Land (a.k.a. The Green Fields of France)', have been recorded numerous times in a dozen or more languages indicating the universality and power of their simple message. Bogle's other compositions about the First World War give a voice to the voiceless, prominence to the forgotten...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367593750
• ISBN13: 9780367593759
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"