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God bless America : Tin Pan Alley goes to war
Title:
God bless America : Tin Pan Alley goes to war
Author:
Smith, Kathleen E. R.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Lexington, Ky. : The University Press of Kentucky, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
What this country needs is a good five cent war song! -- "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" -- "There's nary an 'Over there' in the lot" -- War songs in boy-girl terms -- War is good for the music business -- "Yearnful bellowings" -- Recipes for war songs -- Just love songs with a once-over-lightly war background -- The National Wartime Music Committee -- "From cantata to outright corn" -- Tin Pan Alley's music war committee -- Tin Pan Alley still seeks the "proper" war song -- Even stale music sells like nylons -- Jitterbugs and bobby-soxers -- "Meet Soozie Cue".
ISBN:
9780813122564

9780813122526
Format :
Book