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Music And Modernism

Music And Modernism. Billie Holiday. Music Prior to Modernism. “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” by Fred Fisher released in 1911 Let’s listen  http://www.archive.org/details/comojos1911. The Great War era songs helped to improve morale among the soldiers, and those serving at home.

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Music And Modernism

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  1. Music And Modernism Billie Holiday

  2. Music Prior to Modernism • “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” by Fred Fisher released in 1911 • Let’s listen  • http://www.archive.org/details/comojos1911

  3. The Great War era songs helped to improve morale among the soldiers, and those serving at home John McCormack’s #4 hit released in 1917 “Keep the Home Fires Burning” “Oh! It’s A Lovely War!” penned by J.P. Long and M. Scott in 1917. Music of the Great War

  4. Keep the Home Fires Burning They were summoned from the hillsideThey were called in from the glen,And the country found them readyAt the stirring call for men.Let no tears add to their hardshipsAs the soldiers pass along,And although your heart is breakingMake it sing this cheery song: Keep the Home Fires Burning,While your hearts are yearning,Though your lads are far awayThey dream of home.There's a silver liningThrough the dark clouds shining,Turn the dark cloud inside out'Til the boys come home. Overseas there came a pleading,"Help a nation in distress."And we gave our glorious laddiesHonour bade us do no less,For no gallant son of freedomTo a tyrant's yoke should bend,And a noble heart must answerTo the sacred call of "Friend." Keep the Home Fires Burning,While your hearts are yearning,Though your lads are far awayThey dream of home.There's a silver liningThrough the dark clouds shining,Turn the dark cloud inside out'Til the boys come home.

  5. The Roaring 20’s • Was a time of great social change. • In music, the three sounds were jazz, jazz, and jazz. • Jazz age came about with artists like Bessie Smith and Duke Ellington. • http://www.gershwin.com/ Duke Ellington

  6. The Great Depression starting in 1929---affects not felt till 1930, lasted most of the 1930’s. Big bands were HUGE from 1935-1947 while not considered “jazz”, the bands often used jazz arrangements. Swing started to be recorded in 1931 and Cuban rumba begins to enter the American mainstream. “Brother Can You Spare a Dime” Jay Gorney (1931) “We’re in the Money” Harry Warren (1933) “The Birth of Swing” Bluebird, Benny Goodman (King of Swing 1935) Music of The Great Depression

  7. “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime," (1931) They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob, When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job. They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead, Why should I be standing in line, just waiting for bread? Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time. Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime; Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell, Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum, Half a million boots went slogging through Hell, And I was the kid with the drum! Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time. Why don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime? Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell, Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum, Half a million boots went slogging through Hell, And I was the kid with the drum! Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time. Say, don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?

  8. "We're in the Money" (1933) We're in the money, we're in the money; We've got a lot of what it takes to get along! We're in the money, that sky is sunny, Old Man Depression you are through, you done us wrong. We never see a headline about breadlines today. And when we see the landlord we can look that guy right in the eye We're in the money, come on, my honey, Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along! Oh, yes we're in the money, you bet we're in the money, We've got a lot of what it takes to get along! Let's go we're in the money, Look up the skies are sunny, Old Man Depression you are through, you done us wrong. We never see a headline about breadlines today. And when we see the landlord we can look that guy right in the eye We're in the money, come on, my honey, Let's lend it, spend it, send it rolling along!

  9. The music of the forties reflected the feeling of a nation at war. Pro-war songs included “We Did it Before and We Can Do it Again” and “Kiss the Boys Goodbye”. “God Bless America” written by Irving Berlin in 1917 was first performed by Kate Smith in1938 http://www.wartimeradio.com/kisstheboysgoodbye.html 1939-1945 WWII FrankSinatra

  10. Ella FitzgeraldFirst Lady of Song First stage performance:Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater, 1934First recording: Love and Kisses, Decca, 1936First number one song: A-Tisket, A-Tasket, 1938 http://www.ellafitzgerald.com/about/musicclip.html

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