Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War - ''An Old Man''s Tears''

This book examines Eric Bogle's songs about the Great War within the geographies and socio-cultural contexts in which they were written and consumed. From Anzac Day in Australia and Turkey to the 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland, and from small Aboriginal communities in the Coorong to the influence of Prime Ministers and rock stars on a world stage, we are urged to contemplate the nature and importance of popular culture in shaping contemporary notions of history and national identity. It is entirely appropriate that we do so through the words of an artist who Melody Maker described as 'the most important songwriter of our time'.

List of contents

Introduction – Eric and me 1. Eric Bogle – Early Life, Work and a Culture of Protest 2. ‘Tired old heroes from a forgotten war’: And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Australia and Gallipoli 3. ‘When this war is over’: Remembering and Forgetting in Australia 4. ‘A warm summer breeze’: No Man’s Land, Ireland and the Afterlives of Willie McBride 5. ‘A Stranger Without Even a Name:’ An Interview with Eric Bogle at the Somme, 2016 6. ‘Old Men Still Talk and Argue:’ Remembrance, Education and the Future of the Past Conclusion ‘Again and again and again and again…’ Bibliography Discography

About the author

Michael J. K. Walsh has published widely on cultural responses to, and interpretations of, the Great War. He is the author of: This Cult of Violence (2002) and Hanging a Rebel (2008); editor of A Dilemma of English Modernism (2007) and London, Modernism and 1914 (2010); and co-editor of Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology (2016) and The Great War and the British Empire: Culture and Society (2016). He is Associate Professor of Art History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Product details

• Authors: Michael J. K. Walsh, Michael J. K. (Nanyang Technological Univer Walsh, Walsh Michael J. K.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138719118
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71911-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Studies in First World War History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Cultural Studies, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, First World War, HISTORY / General, MUSIC / History & Criticism, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal, Theory of music & musicology, Popular Music, Composers and songwriters, Popular music, easy listening, Theory of music and musicology, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I