Customer Review: Historians and musicologists have contributed very little to the heritage of military music in America. Professor Raoul Camus in his work Military Music of the American Revolution has traced the development of early American military, which was patterned after the British drum calls and drill... more info
Customer Review: This book covers German Military Music not only from the Third Reich but from Die Landskenect, around 1560 A.D.to modern Germany, 2003 A.D. There is an excellent section on East German Military Music explaining how and why German music changed for the worse with the unification of todays modern... more info
Customer Review: I'm not sure who gave me this book, but I threw it in my bag, intending to read it on the plane flying back from LA. From the first word it was engrossing. As the miles went by, I got deeper into the book. Then suddenly I realized that I had met and knew some of the people in the book.... more info
Customer Review: This is an excellent, brief presentation of what musical life was like in the Nazi ghettos and camps. It tends toward the "academic" with regard to structure but, for me, it works nicely because I find it easy to use within a university context. Ms. Gilbert provides an excellent bibliography and a... more info
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