Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface / Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Introduction: Music and Global War in the Short Twentieth Century / Pamela M. Potter

Part I: On the Airwaves and the Screen
1. Sandy Calling: Forging an Intimate Wartime Public at the BBC Theater Organ / Christina L. Baade
2. "Alien" Classical Musicians and the BBC, 1939 – 1945 / Tony Stoller
3. Musical "Diplomacy" in American and Soviet World War II Films of the 1940s / Peter Kupfer

Part II: Opera, Theater Stage, and Concerts
4. The Metropolitan Opera House and the "War of Ideologies": The Politics of Opera Publicity in Wartime / Christopher Lynch
5. Broadway Goes to War / Tim Carter
6. Throwing Some Light on the Dunkelkonzerte: Towards a New Image of Concert Life in Vienna, 1939-1944 / Nicholas Attfield
7. Before the End of Time: General Huntziger's Centre Musical et Théâtral / Christopher Brent Murray

Part III: National Imaginaries
8. Swing in the Protectorate: Czech Popular Music under the Nazi Occupation, 1938-1945 / Brian S. Locke
9. A Musical Reedeucation: Music-making in America's German POW Camps and the Intellectual Diversion Program / Kelsey Kramer McGinnis
10. Bunkers, Cellars, and Acoustic Memory: Sonic Experiences of War and Surrender in Nazi Germany / Abby Anderton

Afterword: Trans/national Soundscapes in World War II / Annegret Fauser
Selected Works

About the Author

Pamela M. Potter is Professor of German and Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of Most German of the Arts: Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler's Reich and Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts and editor (with Celia Applegate) of Music and German National Identity. Christina L. Baade is Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies and Multimedia at McMaster University. She is author of the award-winning Victory through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II and editor (with James Deaville) of Music and the Broadcast Experience: Performance, Production, and Audiences. Roberta Montemorra Marvin is Professor of Musicology and Chair of the Department of Music and Dance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is author of many books, including The Politics of Verdi's Cantica, and is editor of the critical edition of that work for the Works of Giuseppe Verdi series.

Reviews

The newly published Indiana University Press book, Music in World War II: Coping with Wartime in Europe and the United States, has enlarged my understanding of how music became a tool of war for allies and adversaries alike, as opponents became allies and allies became opponents in a shifting landscape of diplomacy. Music as propaganda wasn't on my radar as a child. . . . The editors designed a book to show a broad base of music's power to shape citizens and soldiers in wartime. They chose essayists whose imperative brings us into the moments of real people in a world of divisiveness. In my childhood household I was instructed, "We are fighting for ideals, for 'liberty and justice for all.' When the war is over and we are winners we have work to do to make America a safe place for everyone. Always make something better for everyone." A powerful charge for a little kid.
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Music in World War II is a book that is really worth reading not only because it is a true page-turner and the stories are unique and fascinating, but also because it truly adds to our knowledge of World War II events from a perspective that is even wider than just music.
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