Author: Robert WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Pro Patria : a Song of the British Empire
Author: Robert WhitePro Patria Et Rege
Author: William Angus KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The British Empire
Author: Stand in the Trench, Achilles
Author: Elizabeth VandiverPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191609218
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Elizabeth Vandiver examines the ways in which British poets of the First World War used classical literature, culture, and history as a source of images, ideas, and even phrases for their own poetry. Vandiver argues that classics was a crucial source for writers from a wide variety of backgrounds, from working-class poets to those educated in public schools, and for a wide variety of political positions and viewpoints. Poets used references to classics both to support and to oppose the war from its beginning all the way to the Armistice and after. By exploring the importance of classics in the poetry of the First World War, Vandiver offers a new perspective on that poetry and on the history of classics in British culture.
Pro Patria
Author: Mark CoghlanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War
Author: Dr John MullenPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472441591
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers’ songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating insight into the world of popular entertainment during the First World War. He considers the position of songs of this time within the history of popular music, and the needs, tastes and experiences of their working-class audiences. He assesses the different genres of musical entertainment which were common in the war years and presents a subtle and nuanced approach to the nature of popular song, the ways in which audiences related to the music and the effects of the competing pressures of commerce, propaganda, patriotism, social attitudes and the progress of the war.
Pro Patria Et Regina
Author: William Angus KnightPublisher: Glasgow, J. MacLehose
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War
Author: John MullenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317016122
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Using a collection of over one thousand popular songs from the war years, as well as around 150 soldiers’ songs, John Mullen provides a fascinating insight into the world of popular entertainment during the First World War. Mullen considers the position of songs of this time within the history of popular music, and the needs, tastes and experiences of working-class audiences who loved this music. To do this, he dispels some of the nostalgic, rose-tinted myths about music hall. At a time when recording companies and record sales were marginal, the book shows the centrality of the live show and of the sale of sheet music to the economy of the entertainment industry. Mullen assesses the popularity and significance of the different genres of musical entertainment which were common in the war years and the previous decades, including music hall, revue, pantomime, musical comedy, blackface minstrelsy, army entertainment and amateur entertainment in prisoner of war camps. He also considers non-commercial songs, such as hymns, folk songs and soldiers’ songs and weaves them into a subtle and nuanced approach to the nature of popular song, the ways in which audiences related to the music and the effects of the competing pressures of commerce, propaganda, patriotism, social attitudes and the progress of the war.
A New List of Books on the War
Author: Poetry in English and Metal Music
Author: Arturo Mora-RiojaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031291832
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
Many metal songs incorporate poetry into their lyrics using a broad array of techniques, both textual and musical. This book develops a novel adaptation, appropriation, and quotation taxonomy that both expands our knowledge of how poetry is used in metal music and is useful for scholars across adaptation studies broadly. The text follows both a quantitative and a qualitative approach. It identifies 384 metal songs by 224 bands with intertextual ties to 146 poems written by fifty-one different poets, with a special focus on Edgar Allan Poe, John Milton's Paradise Lost and the work of WWI's War Poets. This analysis of transformational mechanisms allows poetry to find an afterlife in the form of metal songs and sheds light on both the adaptation and appropriation process and on the semantic shifts occasioned by the recontextualisation of the poems into the metal music culture. Some musicians reuse – and sometimes amplify – old verses related to politics and religion in our present times; others engage in criticism or simple contradiction. In some cases, the bands turn the abstract feelings evoked by the poems into concrete personal experiences. The most adventurous recraft the original verses by changing the point of view of either the poetic voice or the addressed actors, altering the vocaliser of the narrative or the gender of the protagonists. These mechanisms help metal musicians make the poems their own and adjust them to their artistic needs so that the resulting product is consistent with the expectations of the metal music culture.