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Author:   Christina L. Baade (Associate Professor in Music and Communication Studies, Associate Professor in Music and Communication Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.587kg
ISBN:  

9780195372014

ISBN 10:   0195372018
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   22 December 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Contents About the Companion Website www.oup.com/us/victorythroughharmony Abbreviations Introduction: ""Victory through Harmony"" Chapter 1: Uplift, Dance Music, and the BBC in Interwar Britain Chapter 2: ""In Tempore Belli"": Popular Music for Morale in the Phony War Chapter 3: Music While You Work: Discipline, Dance Music, and Workers in Wartime Chapter 4: Between Blitzkrieg and Call-Up: BBC Dancing Club, Masculinity, and the Dance Band Scheme Chapter 5: Radio Rhythm Club: Race, Authenticity, and the British Swing Boom Chapter 6: Sincerely Yours: The Trouble with Sentimentality and the Ban on Crooners Chapter 7: Calling the British Forces in Malta: Broadcasting Femininity Abroad - and at Home Chapter 8: ""Invasion Year"": Americans in Britain, Americanization, and the Dance Music Backlash Conclusion Bibliography Index"

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<br> Christina Baade's meticulously researched, engagingly written story of the BBC's struggle on the front lines of popular music during the World War II years opens up new historical territory. Charting the clash of taste cultures, national interests, gender, race, and sexuality over a handful of crucial years, her study demonstrates the immense vitality and importance of popular music, and its radio purveyors, in a time of social transformation. It is a tale not to be missed. --Michele Hilmes, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Network Nations: A Transnational History of British and American Broadcasting<p><br> In this captivating and thoroughly researched book, Christina Baade has found a notable balance between fascinating detail and musical vigour, her flowing and evocative writing bringing to life the extraordinary role that popular music played in British broadcasting during the Second World War. Using the BBC's institu

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Christina Baade is Associate Professor in Communication Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

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