40s and 50s: From War to Peace Book

Discusses the influence of people and events worldwide when music served as World War II propaganda even as it blossomed into Broadway and Hollywood musicals, big bands, and ...

Nancy Garhan Attebury - Children's Literature

Explore the musical period following World War II with this book from the series entitled "20th Century Music." Information can be gathered quickly and efficiently with the well-structured layout of this book. Thirteen short two-page chapters cover the times between Glenn Miller and Elvis Presley and present the reader with a compact history of composers, songwriters, musicians, dance and opera. Big band, blues, chamber music, scat, and virtuoso are some of the musical terms used in the text and defined in the glossary. The reader will gain an understanding of the history of the world and how music fit into it during the time period. Stage musicals and some of the best Hollywood film musicals are discussed. Duke Ellington, Bernstein, and Copeland are cited as having made great musical contributions during the twenty years. An extensive time line combines the world events, musical events, the arts, famous musicians, and musical works, showing how they relate to each other. A musical library will benefit from this book when it is placed on the shelf with the other books in this series. 2002 (orig. 2001), Gareth Stevens Publishing,