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God bless America : the surprising history of an iconic song
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ISBN: 0199339554 019991978X 0199919771 0199345597 9780199919789 9780199919772 9780199345595 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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The song 'God Bless America' has come to inhabit our collective consciousness. This book tells the fascinating story behind the song, from its composition in 1918 by Irving Berlin, to its first performance by Kate Smith in 1938, to its post 9/11 popularity.


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Twentieth-century music and politics : essays in memory of Neil Edmunds
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ISBN: 9781409400264 1409400263 9781409455080 1409455084 9781138248366 1138248363 1317005805 1317005791 1283859947 9781315549491 9781317005780 9781317005797 Year: 2013 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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When considering the role music played in the major totalitarian regimes of the century it is music's usefulness as propaganda that leaps first to mind. But as this volume demonstrates, there is a complex relationship both between art music and politicised mass culture, and between entertainment and propaganda. Nationality, self/other, power and ideology are the dominant themes of this book, while key topics include: music in totalitarian regimes; music as propaganda; music and national identity; émigré communities and composers; music's role in shaping identities of 'self' and 'other' and mus

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