The Songs That Fought the War
Popular Music and the Home Front, 1939-1945
John Jones

Brandeis University Press
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Preface • “When This Crazy World Is Sane Again” - The Setting for the Songs • “I Hear America Singing” - But Who Wrote All Those Songs?
• “Over Here” - Prewar Isolationism, Patriotism, and Preparedness
• “Chin Up! Cheerio! Carry On!” - The Allies and Us
• “G. I. Jive” - The Draft, Enlistment, and Army Life • “Johnny, Get Your Gun Again” - From National Pride to Axis-Bashing
• “There’s An F. D. R. In Freedom” - The War’s Faces and Places
• “In The Army, In The Navy, In The Marines” - Saluting the Services
• “Don’t Forget There’s A War Going On” - Pitching In and Coping on the Home Front
• “Arm In Arm” - Wartime Romance
• “A Boy In Khaki, A Girl In Lace” - The Servicemen Away, Their Girls Back Home
• “It’s Been A Long, Long Time” - Victory, Homecomings, the World after the War • Bibliography • Index of Song Titles
• General Index




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