TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baade,Christina L.
TI  - Victory Through Harmony: The BBC and Popular Music in World War II
SN  - 9780199707324
AV  - ML68 -- .B33 2012eb 
U1  - 791.440941/09044 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - British Broadcasting Corporation -- History
KW  - Radio and music -- Great Britain
KW  - World War, 1939-1945 -- Music and the war
KW  - Popular music -- Great Britain -- 1941-1950 -- History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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