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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)The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II - Review
The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During World War II. Edited by Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch. (Chicago: University of ......(Continue Reading)One size does not fit all: the precarious position of the African American entrepreneur in post-World War II American popular music
The American popular music industry since World War II has been dominated by white businessmen, but African American entrepreneurs have secured a place ......(Continue Reading)
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