Over Here, Over There: Transatlantic Conversations on the Music of World War I
William Brooks, Christina Bashford, and Gayle Magee
Abstract
Music in World War I played an important role in cementing the transatlantic alliance among Anglophone and Francophone allies. Chapters 1–5 consider responses to the war by five individuals from three countries: Frank Bridge, Charles Ives, Claude Debussy, John Philip Sousa, and Irving Berlin. Chapters 6–10 gradually expand the focus to ever larger groups of people: women theatre organists in the United States, the Longleat community in England, the greater citizenry of Canada, the service flag and Gold Star mother movements throughout the United States, and the global population devastated by ... More
Music in World War I played an important role in cementing the transatlantic alliance among Anglophone and Francophone allies. Chapters 1–5 consider responses to the war by five individuals from three countries: Frank Bridge, Charles Ives, Claude Debussy, John Philip Sousa, and Irving Berlin. Chapters 6–10 gradually expand the focus to ever larger groups of people: women theatre organists in the United States, the Longleat community in England, the greater citizenry of Canada, the service flag and Gold Star mother movements throughout the United States, and the global population devastated by the influenza epidemic. A “prelude,” “interlude,” and “postlude,” which provide context and supplemental material, are co-authored by the three editors, who speak as representatives of England, Canada, and the United States. The whole demonstrates not only the importance of musical exchanges and influences in shaping transatlantic support for the war effort but also the range of contributions made—from unknown amateurs to major composers, from local communities to international populations, and from regions that span a third of the globe.
Keywords:
World War I,
music,
Allies,
France,
Britain,
Canada,
United States,
Frank Bridge,
Charles Ives,
Claude Debussy,
John Philip Sousa
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780252042706 |
Published to Illinois Scholarship Online: May 2020 |
DOI:10.5622/illinois/9780252042706.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
William Brooks, editor
University of York
Christina Bashford, editor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gayle Magee, editor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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