While music and musical life in Nazi Germany, Vichy France, Fascist Italy, and Stalinist Russia have been widely explored, concert music in the United States during World War II has remained markedly untouched. Music in this period - whether as an instrument of propaganda or as a means of entertainment, recuperation, and uplift - pervaded homes and concert halls, army camps and government buildings, hospitals and factories. Dinah Shore, Duke Ellington, and the Andrew Sisters entertained civilian...

• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: "We, as Musicians, are Soldiers, too..."
• Musicians in Uniform
• Performing for Victory
• Composition in the War Effort
• Cultural Mediators and Educators
• Chapter 2: "Shaping Music for Total War"
• Music in the Service of Propaganda: The Office of War Information
• Crossing Borders: Music, Diplomacy, and the State Department
• The Singing Army: Uplift and Education for a Nation
• Music Therapy and the "Reconditioning" o...