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Victory Through Harmony : The BBC and Popular Music in World War II.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (290 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199707324
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victory Through HarmonyDDC classification:
  • 791.440941/09044
LOC classification:
  • ML68 -- .B33 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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