Previously published: Great Britain : David West Children's Books, 2001. With additional end matter.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
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 bebop, then evolved into rock and roll.
Contents
Disaster to recovery -- Artistic resistance -- Stage musicals -- Movie musicals -- New beginnings -- Opera reborn -- Russia and eastern Europe -- Big band to bebop -- Ellington and others -- Bernstein and Copland -- Messiaen anf the Avant-Garde -- Star performers -- Rock 'n' roll -- Time line.
