Victory Through Harmony : The BBC and Popular Music in World War II.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (290 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- About the Companion Website -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: "Victory through Harmony" -- 1 Uplift, Dance Music, and the BBC in Interwar Britain -- 2 "In Tempore Belli": Popular Music for Morale in the Phony War -- 3 Music While You Work: Discipline, Dance Music, and Workers in Wartime -- 4 Between Blitzkrieg and Call-Up: BBC Dancing Club, Masculinity, and the Dance Band Scheme -- 5 Radio Rhythm Club: Race, Authenticity, and the British Swing Boom -- 6 Sincerely Yours: The Trouble with Sentimentality and the Ban on Crooners -- 7 Calling the British Forces in Malta: Broadcasting Femininity Abroad-and at Home -- 8 "Invasion Year": Americans in Britain, Americanization, and the Dance Music Backlash -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Victory through Harmony tells the fascinating story of the BBC's participation in the events of World War II through popular music and jazz broadcasting. Author Christina Baade argues that rather than providing the soundtrack for a unified "People's War" as its popular broadcast Victory through Harmony promised to do, the BBC's popular music broadcasting efforts exposed the divergent ideologies, tastes, and perspectives of the nation.
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British Broadcasting Corporation -- History. Radio and music -- Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war. Popular music -- Great Britain -- 1941-1950 -- History and criticism.