Dark Laughter : War in Song and Popular Culture download ebook
Dark Laughter : War in Song and Popular Culture download ebook
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Author: Les Cleveland
Number of Pages: 232 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 1994
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Publication Country: Westport, United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9780275947644
File Name: Dark.Laughter.War.in.Song.and.Popular.Culture.pdf
Download Link: Dark Laughter War in Song and Popular Culture
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Popular culture is important in wartime. It asserts the values of patriotism, helps to create happy warriors, and expresses people's emotions. Here, Cleveland treats war as popular culture, using service songs, folklore, and popular music as a leitmotif to explore cultural relationships between military life and society. Drawing on 20th-century lyrics, occupational folklore, and rank-and-file parodies, protests, and sexual fantasies, he shows how crises of war are mediated by popular culture and how the soldier comes to terms with boredom, discomfort, and danger. Ranging from World War I to Vietnam and drawing on his own experience in World War II, Cleveland provides a unique treatment of military folklore and popular song in 20th-century warfare from the perspective of the ordinary soldier.
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Dark Laughter : War in Song and Popular Culture by Les Cleveland
Author: Les Cleveland
Number of Pages: 232 pages
Published Date: 01 Mar 1994
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Publication Country: Westport, United States
Language: English
Format: Pdf
ISBN: 9780275947644
File Name: Dark.Laughter.War.in.Song.and.Popular.Culture.pdf
Download Link: Dark Laughter War in Song and Popular Culture
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Popular culture is important in wartime. It asserts the values of patriotism, helps to create happy warriors, and expresses people's emotions. Here, Cleveland treats war as popular culture, using service songs, folklore, and popular music as a leitmotif to explore cultural relationships between military life and society. Drawing on 20th-century lyrics, occupational folklore, and rank-and-file parodies, protests, and sexual fantasies, he shows how crises of war are mediated by popular culture and how the soldier comes to terms with boredom, discomfort, and danger. Ranging from World War I to Vietnam and drawing on his own experience in World War II, Cleveland provides a unique treatment of military folklore and popular song in 20th-century warfare from the perspective of the ordinary soldier.
Read online Dark Laughter : War in Song and Popular Culture Buy and read online Dark Laughter : War in Song and Popular Culture Download and read Dark Laughter : War in Song and Popular Culture ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Dark Laughter : War in Song and Popular Culture