Sounds of War: Music in the United States During World War II

by Annegret Fauser

What role did music play in the United States during World War II? How did composers reconcile the demands of their country and their art as America mobilized both militarily and culturally for war?

Annegret Fauser explores these and many other questions in the first in-depth study of American concert music during World War II. While Dinah Shore, Duke Ellington, and the Andrew Sisters entertained civilians at home and G.I.s abroad with swing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199948038
• ISBN13: 9780199948031
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"