What is it about?
This review-article uses two recent publications, Patrick Bade’s Music Wars, 1937-1945 (London, 2012) and Christina Baade’s Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War Two (Oxford, 2012), as the starting point for a critique of historical, literary and musical scholarship on World War Two.
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Why is it important?
This review-article suggests new perspectives that musicology might offer on this saturated field. In particular, I suggest that musicologists might help re-situate World War Two within a broader historical context, by drawing attention to how the cultural products of wartime intersected with on-going debates about modernism, gender, technologies, class, and nationality.
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This page is a summary of: Soundtracks to the 'People's War', Music and Letters, May 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/ml/gct026.
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