Victory through harmony [electronic resource] the BBC and popular music in World War II / Christina L. Baade.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.Description: viii, 275 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 791.440941/09044 22
- ML68 .B33 2012
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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.