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In the wake of Robert Lowell: can today's poets seize the moment as their great predecessors did during the First World War and the fighting in Vietnam?
Weekly assembly at my old school in Essex was a sombre, repetitive occasion. A recital of the Lord's Prayer, a homily or two from one of the senior masters, the obligatory warnings about the conseq...(Continue Reading) Tin Pan Alley on the march: popular music, World War II, and the quest for a great war song
In 1941, several months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, a new Irving Berlin song appeared on jukeboxes across the United States. Berlin and his sponsors ......(Continue Reading)French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. - Review - book review
French Cultural Politics and Music: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. By Jane F. Fulcher. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, ......(Continue Reading)Baptists, music, and World War II
Southern Baptists have always been a singing people with great diversity in our music. The types of music used in our churches has varied largely according to their location and tradition--urban...(Continue Reading)War, music, and evolution - Forum - Critical Essay
One recent morning, I awoke to the full-bodied horns of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man." The radio program host said Copland composed it ......(Continue Reading)
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