Talk:Music in World War II

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 4 February 2019 and 3 May 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Anthony 2466.

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Past Discussions
I'm not entirley sure what a "formal tone is", as for the nature of semiotic study in World War II popular music this falls solidily in post-modernist studies which reject formal tones, therefore the formal tone request would do violence to the study.

In the traditional formal tone music, espeically popular music, does not have a meaning or a function, for is a formal, objective or abstract tone possible. Such an article, though important to knowledge formation, will needs be value loaded since the transformation of music memeory in the war is value laden.

In fact to expand on this, since the "role" of music is rather subject I don't see alterations as much as changes, I have been doing some study of knowledge construction and culture construction during the Thrid Riech but my primary source book went missing after a move to London, so I will need to explore for esoteric data.

I am confused by the article, as well as this discussion page...?71.112.66.222 08:31, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

This thing needs a rewrite.its not neutral —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.200.146.2 (talk) 01:25, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering if anyone knows about the effects of songs in Japan? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.36.198.99 (talk) 17:58, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Under the heading "Songs, compositions and others written after the war" Shostakovich's 7th symphony is listed, simply clicking on the link will show it was written during the war. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.107.171.187 (talk) 09:29, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

how on earth
could you miss Beethoven's Vth symphony? 71.163.117.143 (talk) 20:05, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

It is not clear to me
exactly what the section on "American music" (and all the other sections on other countries too) is supposed to represent? it seems to me that the section should just include songs that have some obvious, or even subtle connection to the War. Otherwise it will just be a list of every song that made the Top 40 during the war. Or is that what is supposed to be there? Carptrash (talk) 18:50, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Editing of page
I have added some basic information to the page about how the music either changed during the course of the war or on what the music was used for. More was added to the Russian music and german unapproved music parts of this article. I refer to Russia as Soviet Union because the two are interchangeable for that period of time. Two sentences were added to the Japanese section, but they give a basic information of the music and nothing in depth. Added some more citations for the new added parts. Added a new citation to an older work since the information was already used in the page. Tried to make new added work as neutral as possible, if not please inform me so i can make necessary changes. May or may not take out the Japanese work added today since it is very little, but will most likely try to just add on to it. --Matthew Posada (talk) 18:49, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Americans and World War II
I added some basic information of what Americans soldiers felt when they were sent off during war. I also added information about the people and Wordl War II and how they felt as well. One last edit I made to this article is the introdcution of the radio which really didnt mention throughout the article. Anthony 2466 (talk) 18:21, 5 April 2019 (UTC)

Mozart was a Mason
The article mentions that the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was promoted in Nazi Germany, but Mozart was a Freemason, and Freemasons were persecuted in Nazi Germany. Could someone clarify this point? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.209.196.230 (talk) 09:55, 16 February 2022 (UTC)