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Music in the Service of Propaganda: The Office of War Information Music in the Service of Propaganda: The Office of War Information
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Crossing Borders: Music, Diplomacy, and the State Department Crossing Borders: Music, Diplomacy, and the State Department
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The Singing Army: Uplift and Education for a Nation The Singing Army: Uplift and Education for a Nation
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Music Therapy and the “Reconditioning” of Soldiers Music Therapy and the “Reconditioning” of Soldiers
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Two “Shaping Music for Total War”
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Published:May 2013
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Abstract
Music became a tool of choice in the cultural war that the United States fought in concert with its military campaign. Musical diplomacy was used to win the hearts of Allied and neutral nations; morale and propaganda operations employed classical music to uplift and impress; the military was faced with contradictory ideologies and agendas when it came to musical performance and education; and music therapy flourished in the desperate fight to “recondition” those soldiers whom trauma had left unable to return to combat or to reintegrate into civilian society. These issues are explored in four sections dedicated to the main governmental institutions during World War II: the Office of War Information (OWI), the State Department, the armed forces, and the military hospitals and research institutions that developed music therapy. In this context of institutional history, several individuals are featured more prominently, including Henry Cowell and Bess Lomax Hawes (OWI); Olin Downes, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, and Mobley Lushanya (State Department); Chauncey Lee and Harold Spivacke (armed forces); and Harriet Ayer Seymour and Willem van de Wall (music therapy).
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