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John Mullen , The Show Must Go On! Popular Song in Britain During the First World War. Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series, ed. Stan Hawkins and Derek B. Scott (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2015; London and New York: Routledge, 2016). xii+250 pp. £65.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2016

Michelle Meinhart
Michelle Meinhart*
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Durham University / Martin Methodist College, michelle.meinhart@gmail.com
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , August 2017 , pp. 246 - 249
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References

1 Notable book-length exceptions are Foreman, Lewis, Oh, My Horses! Edward Elgar and the Great War (London: Elgar Editions, 2001), 2nd revised edition (London: Triflower, 2014)Google Scholar, and Watkins, Glenn, Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2003)Google Scholar.

2 Peter Bailey and Michael Kilgarriff both deal with wartime music but only as larger studies that encompass many decades. Moreover, Kilgarriff’s volume is a catalogue. See Kilgarriff, Michael, Sing Us One of the Old Songs: A Guide to Popular Song 1860–1920 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)Google Scholar and Bailey, Peter, ed., Music-Hall: The Business of Pleasure (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986)Google Scholar.