Popular music remained, of course, the standard material of radio broadcast during the Second World War. The crucial difference, however, wa...

During the Second World War, the war publicity machine widely trumpeted the names of Allied military commanders. In its putative morale-buil...

In Friedrich A. Kittler’s Gramophone, Film, Typewriter war occupies a central place, serving as a crucial factor in media transformation. K...

By 1940, both America and the rest of the world recognized swing music as America’s “most distinctive contribution” to world musical culture...

In my blog entry yesterday, I wrote about the effect of World War II on jazz music, and how it rendered the modernist values jazz had come t...