Author: Phineas StowePublisher:
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Category : Soldiers
Languages : en
Pages :
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Welcome Song for Soldiers
Author: Phineas StoweWelcome Song for Soldiers & Sailors
Author: Phineas StowePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1
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The Soldiers Welcome Home
Author: Songs of the Soldiers
Author: Frank MoorePublisher:
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Category : Songsters
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Soldiers of Song
Author: Jason WilsonPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554588820
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbells—concert parties made up of fighting soldiers—were central to this process. Soldiers of Song tells their story. Lucky soldiers who could sing a song, perform a skit, or pass as a “lady,” were taken from the line and put onstage for the benefit of their soldier-audiences. The intent was to bolster morale and thereby help soldiers survive the war. The Dumbells’ popularity was not limited to troop shows along the trenches. The group also managed a run in London’s West End and became the first ever Canadian production to score a hit on Broadway. Touring Canada for some twelve years after the war, the Dumbells became a household name and made more than twenty-five audio recordings. If nationhood was won on the crest of Vimy Ridge, it was the Dumbells who provided the country with its earliest soundtrack. Pioneers of sketch comedy, the Dumbells are as important to the history of Canadian theatre as they are to the cultural history of early-twentieth-century Canada.
The Soldier's Welcome Home
Author: Marion McMynnPublisher:
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Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
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The Memory Cycle
Author: Harriet CarterPublisher:
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Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Welcome Song : the Celebrated Song
Author: The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky. To the Statesmen, Soldiers, and Citizens of Garrard County
Author: Eugenia Dunlap PottsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385505380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Author: Doug BradleyPublisher: UMass + ORM
ISBN: 161376426X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
“The diversity of voices and songs reminds us that the home front and the battlefront are always connected and that music and war are deeply intertwined.” —Heather Marie Stur, author of 21 Days to Baghdad For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam’s Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.” And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” or the song that gives this book its title. In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans—black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and “grunts”—whose personal reflections drive the book’s narrative. Many of the voices are those of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also “solo” pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the war—Karl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur Flowers—as well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced soldiers’ lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps into memories—individual and cultural—that capture a central if often overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.