6,13,20,27 Jan & 3 Feb 2026
14,21,28 Apr & 5,12 May 2026
The course will largely focus on the immediate postwar years and the decline of the Great American Song. We will trace some of the changes that overtook popular entertainment during and after WW2 including the Andrews Sisters and Glenn Miller. Postwar we will look at the rise of the solo crooner...
The course will largely focus on the immediate postwar years and the decline of the Great American Song. We will trace some of the changes that overtook popular entertainment during and after WW2 including the Andrews Sisters and Glenn Miller. Postwar we will look at the rise of the solo crooner and pop vocalists such as Crosby, Como and Sinatra. We...
At the turn of the twentieth century, American classical music was dependent on Europe, jazz was in its infancy and the musical did not exist. American art rejected the latest trends from across the Atlantic but was struggling for an identity. Yet within fifty years, images of the USA...
At the turn of the twentieth century, American classical music was dependent on Europe, jazz was in its infancy and the musical did not exist. American art rejected the latest trends from across the Atlantic but was struggling for an identity. Yet within fifty years, images of the USA – both pictorial and musical – were ubiquitous: from its...
