Popular Song in the First World War

Abstract

Introduction: Beyond the Question of Morale: Popular Music in the First World War John Mullen What Voices Can be Heard in Wartime Popular Song? Chapter I: What voices can be heard in British music hall Songs of the First World War? John Mullen Chapter II: French popular song at the front during the Great War Eric Sauda Chapter III: German soldier songs in the First World War and beyond Andre Rottgeri Chapter IV: The music of war resistance in Britain, 1914-1918 Clive Barrett Chapter V: In search of the French anti-war song, the Chanson de Craonne Guy Marival Gender, Commercial Song and War Chapter VI Couples in French popular song and the challenges of the Great War Anne Simon Chapter VII Masculinity, war and song in America 1917-1918 Christina Gier Chapter VIII From tulips and curls to donuts and jazz: the representation of women in American popular and soldier songs during the First World War Amy Wells Chapter IX Staging the nation: Claire Waldoff and Berlin cabaret before and during the Great War Melanie Schiller The Expression of National and Social Identities Chapter X 'We shall get there in time': contemporary responses to the First World War by New Zealand songwriters Chris Bourke Chapter XI: Irish Songs of World War I Erick Falc'her-Poyroux Chapter XII: Popular music and eroticism: the Spanish Cuple during the years of the First World War Lidia Lopez. Chapter XIII: A business without an industry: the Portuguese music business in turbulent times Pedro Felix Chapter XIV: Early Serbian popular songs outside of Serbia during the Great War Dragan Aleksic, Maja Vasiljevic, Natasa Simeunovic Bajic