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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) The end of World War II in Europe - pages from a V-E diary
A WEEK BEFORE the German surrender I was at Canadian Army headquarters in Holland preparing to drive through the disintegrating Wehrmacht and reach Bremen ahead of our document-destroying infantry....(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)Stormy history of the Villa von Trapp - the von Trapp family, of 'The Sound of Music' fame, escaped from Austria when the country decided to join with
"The Sound of Music" ends on a happy note, with the brave von Trapps scaling the Alps toward freedom. The outcome was not immediately quite so fortunate, ......(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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