National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music 9781137601391, 2016958212

Popular Music and National Culture in Israel 9780520936881

A unique Israeli national culture—indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness"—remains a matter of debate, a strug

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Victory Through Harmony : The BBC and Popular Music in World War II 9780199707324, 9780195372014

To serve the British nation in World War II, the BBC charged itself with mobilizing popular music in support of Britain&

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The First World War and German National Identity: The Dual Alliance at War 1107031672, 9781107031678

An innovative study of the coalition between Imperial Germany and Austria-Hungary during the First World War. Jan Vermei

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Scotland and the First World War: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Bannockburn 9781611487770, 9781611487787

What did war look like in the cultural imagination of 1914? Why did men in Scotland sign up to fight in unprecedented nu

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Sounds German: Popular Music in Postwar Germany at the Crossroads of the National and Transnational 9781789204735

For decades, Germany has been shaped and reshaped by the sounds of popular music—whether viewed as uniquely German or an

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The First World War and Popular Cinema: 1914 to the Present 9781474471527

Cinema was almost twenty years old when WWI broke out but the war introduced radical changes in the making and use of fi

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Germany's Aims in the First World War

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Culture and Propaganda in World War II: Music, Film and the Battle for National Identity 9780755623860, 9781350159068

The wartime period in Britain is now seen as an extremely fertile period of British creativity in music, film and art. O

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The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil [1 ed.] 0807847666, 9780807847664

Samba is Brazil's "national rhythm" the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood. To the outsider, s

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Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia: Remembering World War II in Brezhnev’s Hero City 9781350987296, 9781786732736

The 1943 battle to free the Soviet Black Sea port of Novorossiisk from German occupation was fought from the beach head

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