For musicians, their job can be quite difficult at times. Not enough people listening to their music, no audience at a show or no one likes their new mixtape, whatever the case, people affect a musician’s career in a big way. Take a second to think about how your favorite musician’s, any celebrity really, life is under constant watch, you always know right away when a song comes out. Now, imagine living in a time like 1940’s, in the midst of World War Two. You really like this German composer, but you can’t listen to him because the United States, or wherever you live, won’t broadcast his music. He’s an enemy! Not every musician was like that during a time like World War Two. Even though a lot of musicians couldn’t perform during wars, music still highly affected people’s life during war times.
Prior to my research, I believed that music was still created during wars but my initial thought was by who? In cases like the Vietnam War, I knew American men were drafted and the Beatles rose in popularity around that time but the Beatles were British. I knew that the song Strawberry Fields Forever and other songs …show more content…
I found a lot of musicians who still composed, sang or performed during wars to keep people’s spirits high. As Kate Kennedy states in the article World War One and Classical Music, “Ivor Gurney returned after 15 months at the front, having been shot and gassed, but with five of his most enduring songs, some written practically in the front line. One mud-spattered manuscript, a setting of ‘By a Bierside’, was written by the light of a stump of candle in a trench mortar emplacement (Kennedy).” I think this clip from the article is important because it shows the determination that the composer, Ivor Gurney, had to create music. It may not be the same as directly stating the feelings through writing, but the feelings can still be
Prior to my research, I believed that music was still created during wars but my initial thought was by who? In cases like the Vietnam War, I knew American men were drafted and the Beatles rose in popularity around that time but the Beatles were British. I knew that the song Strawberry Fields Forever and other songs …show more content…
I found a lot of musicians who still composed, sang or performed during wars to keep people’s spirits high. As Kate Kennedy states in the article World War One and Classical Music, “Ivor Gurney returned after 15 months at the front, having been shot and gassed, but with five of his most enduring songs, some written practically in the front line. One mud-spattered manuscript, a setting of ‘By a Bierside’, was written by the light of a stump of candle in a trench mortar emplacement (Kennedy).” I think this clip from the article is important because it shows the determination that the composer, Ivor Gurney, had to create music. It may not be the same as directly stating the feelings through writing, but the feelings can still be