This reference work lists sheet music that is no longer extant, gives complete lyrics for all the extant songs and offers a brief historical background for many of the songs. As far as possible, each entry contains the title, lyricists, composers, publishers and dates and cities of publication.
This book critically examines the music and politics that emerged from the Civil Rights Movement as incredibly important sites and sources of spiritual rejuvenation, social organization, political education, and cultural transformation. The book is primarily preoccupied with that liminal, in-between, and often inexplicable place where black popular music and black popular movements meet and merge.
To the tune of "Yankee Doodle," the American obsession with politics was born alongside America itself. From the end of the Revolutionary War through to the antebellum era, music made front page news and brought men to blows. Both common citizens and politiciansaeven early presidents of the young nationaused well-known songs to fuel heated debates over the meaning of liberty, the future and nature of the republic, and Americans' proper place within it. As both propaganda and protest, music calle...
This book is an addition to the British music culture as it traces the history, growth and environmental, social and musical conditions of the Brass Band Movement during the Victorian era, and the influences of the "Romantic Period."
Americans have long stood to salute the flag and sing the national anthem, but in the wake of September 11, it has become more than a ritual at the beginning of a baseball game. Our flag has been on proud display in nearly every home, car, and shop window across the country and our national anthem has never been more popular.Despite this resurgence in patriotism, few know the real story behind The Star Spangled Banner -- neither the song nor the flag that inspired it. In this remarkable book, Ne...
Report on "The Star-Spangled Banner", "Hail Columbia", "America", "Yankee Doodle"
After Pearl Harbor, Tin Pan Alley songwriters rushed to write the Great American War Song -- an "Over There" for World War II. The most popular songs, however, continued to be romantic ballads, escapist tunes, or novelty songs. To remedy the situation, the federal government created the National Wartime Music Committee, an advisory group of the Office of War Information (OWI), which outlined "proper" war songs, along with tips on how and what to write. The music business also formed its own Musi...
A collection of the most typical and popular songs of the United States Navy from its birth to the present.
Focus: Music, Nationalism, and the Making of the New Europe
by Philip Vilas Bohlman
