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Proof Through the Night: Music and the Great War.(Book Review)
By Glenn Watkins. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. [xvi, 598 p. ISBN 0-520-23158-9. $49.95.] Music examples, illustrations, bibliography, index, compact disc.
Composers, soldiers, politicians, citizens, and musicians left ample proof through the night of their patriotism and fervor in the First World War. Glenn Watkins has provided the most detailed study of the subject from a musical perspective yet to appear, and he has not confined himself to purely musical issues, for he confidently deals with racial, social, political, and other matters, which will surely enrich scholarship of the First World War when that scholarship's vision strays away from ...
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