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

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

Morris, John

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Twentieth Century History, Book 64

General Political ScienceBritish HistoryWorld War II

ISBN10: 1780763972
ISBN13: 9781780763972
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Dec 18 2013
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

The wartime period in Britain is now seen as an extremely fertile period of British creativity in music, film and art. Often, these projects were funded and supported by the government, who saw its role as a custodian of British culture, and by extension, of British values, at a time when those values seemed under great threat. In the late thirties the Nazi Party had stressed the superiority of Germanic culture and the promotion of Richard Wagner and Carl Orff was central to Hitler's cultural program. In Britain, the War Office under Winston Churchill chose to promote Edward Elgar and Hubert Parry, but also to appropriate and 'de-Nazify' Ludwig van Beethoven- whose Fifth Symphony was used extensively in wartime broadcasts and has since become synonymous with VE Day. Meanwhile, the work of Ralph Vaughn Williams, whose music was commissioned by Powell and Pressburger for use in 49th Parallel, reclaimed a particularly English past stretching back to the Tudors.

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