Baade, Christina L.

Victory through harmony the BBC and popular music in World War II / [electronic resource] Christina L. Baade. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012. - viii, 275 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Uplift, dance music, and the BBC in interwar Britain -- "In tempore belli" : popular music for morale in the phony war -- Music while you work : discipline, dance music, and workers in wartime -- Between blitzkrieg and call-up : BBC dancing club, masculinity, and the dance band scheme -- Radio rhythm club : race, authenticity, and the British swing boom -- Sincerely yours : the trouble with sentimentality and the ban on crooners -- Calling the British forces in Malta : broadcasting femininity abroad and at home -- "Invasion year" : Americans in Britain, americanization, and the dance -- Music backlash.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






British Broadcasting Corporation--History.


Radio and music--Great Britain.
World War, 1939-1945--Music and the war.
Popular music--History and criticism.--Great Britain--1941-1950


Electronic books.

ML68 / .B33 2012

791.440941/09044