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Languages : en
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Book Description
The great British dance bands and their vocalists
Author: Victory through Harmony
Author: Christina L. BaadePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199707324
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
To serve the British nation in World War II, the BBC charged itself with mobilizing popular music in support of Britain's war effort. Radio music, British broadcasters and administrators argued, could maintain civilian and military morale, increase industrial production, and even promote a sense of Anglo-American cooperation. Because of their widespread popularity, dance music and popular song were seen as ideal for these tasks; along with jazz, with its American associations and small but youthful audience, these genres suddenly gained new legitimacy at the traditionally more conservative BBC. In Victory through Harmony, author Christina Baade both tells the fascinating story of the BBC's musical participation in wartime events and explores how popular music and jazz broadcasting helped redefine notions of war, gender, race, class, and nationality in wartime Britain. Baade looks in particular at the BBC's pioneering Listener Research Department, which tracked the tastes of select demographic groups including servicemen stationed overseas and young female factory workers in order to further the goal of entertaining, cheering, and even calming the public during wartime. The book also tells how the wartime BBC programmed popular music to an unprecedented degree with the goal of building national unity and morale, promoting new roles for women, virile representations of masculinity, Anglo-American friendship, and pride in a common British culture. In the process, though, the BBC came into uneasy contact with threats of Americanization, sentimentality, and the creativity of non-white "others," which prompted it to regulate and even censor popular music and performers. Rather than provide the soundtrack for a unified "People's War," Baade argues, the BBC's broadcasting efforts exposed the divergent ideologies, tastes, and perspectives of the nation. This illuminating book will interest all readers in popular music, jazz, and radio, as well as British cultural history and gender studies.
The wonderful era of the great dance bands
Author: Leo WalkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big bands
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Dance Bands
Author: Brian RustPublisher: New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House
ISBN:
Category : Big bands
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Song Means: Analysing and Interpreting Recorded Popular Song
Author: Allan F. MoorePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131705265X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
The musicological study of popular music has developed, particularly over the past twenty years, into an established aspect of the discipline. The academic community is now well placed to discuss exactly what is going on in any example of popular music and the theoretical foundation for such analytical work has also been laid, although there is as yet no general agreement over all the details of popular music theory. However, this focus on the what of musical detail has left largely untouched the larger question - so what? What are the consequences of such theorization and analysis? Scholars from outside musicology have often argued that too close a focus on musicological detail has left untouched what they consider to be more urgent questions related to reception and meaning. Scholars from inside musicology have responded by importing into musicological discussion various aspects of cultural theory. It is in that tradition that this book lies, although its focus is slightly different. What is missing from the field, at present, is a coherent development of the what into the so what of music theory and analysis into questions of interpretation and hermeneutics. It is that fundamental gap that this book seeks to fill. Allan F. Moore presents a study of recorded popular song, from the recordings of the 1920s through to the present day. Analysis and interpretation are treated as separable but interdependent approaches to song. Analytical theory is revisited, covering conventional domains such as harmony, melody and rhythm, but does not privilege these at the expense of domains such as texture, the soundbox, vocal tone, and lyrics. These latter areas are highly significant in the experience of many listeners, but are frequently ignored or poorly treated in analytical work. Moore continues by developing a range of hermeneutic strategies largely drawn from outside the field (strategies originating, in the most part, within psychology and philosophy) but still deeply r
This England's Book of British Dance Bands from the Twenties to the Fifties
Author: Percy BickerdykePublisher:
ISBN: 9780906324257
Category : Bands (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Nat Gonella Discography, 1993-1998
Author: Gerard BieldermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jazz
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
This England's Second Book of British Dance Bands
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780906324370
Category : Bands (Music)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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Author: Brian A. L. Rust