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Description of Pictures: “World War I Sheet Music at the Library of Congress: America’s War, as Viewed by Publishers and the Public”
Paul Fraunfelter, Music Division
American sheet music from the period of the First World War reflects the confidence and challenges of a new economic and industrial giant, suddenly thrust into a war it had previously resisted and eager to assert itself on the world stage. This discussion explores the historical and sociological perspectives of WWI classified (M1646) commercially & privately published, vanity press and manuscript songs, which are available online through the Library of Congress website (https://www.loc.gov/collections/world-war-i-sheet-music/about-this-collection/).

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SHEET1_170404_002.JPG: Paul Fraunfelter
2. SHEET1_170404_020.JPG: Committee on Public Information (CPI) April 1917 - June 1919 Propaganda --> Censorship --> Control of War News --> Attacks Posters Film
3. SHEET1_170404_041.JPG: Committee on Public Information (CPI) Speaker series * 4 Minute Men (750,000+ speeches, nationwide) * 4 Minute Singing
4. SHEET1_170404_044.JPG: Tin Pan Alley Vaudeville stage Sheet music sales (music in the home)
5. SHEET1_170404_059.JPG: M1646 classified sheet music (1914 [1917]-1920) 14,004 unique titles or editions 11,053 printed sheet music * 60% commercial or self-published publications * 40% vanity press 2,951 manuscript * unpublished or amateur deposits * non-print vanity press * manuscript drafts eventually published/printed
6. SHEET1_170404_067.JPG: Vanity Press "pulpers" limited printing Contributor Friedman, Leo ... 1,654 North American Music Company ... 1,630 ...
7. SHEET1_170404_109.JPG: Cause, the Enemy and Ideals * Submarine warfare * Democracy v Autocracy * The "Hun" -- Kaiser * "Bleeding Belgium" * Lafayette
8. SHEET1_170404_125.JPG: The New National Identity * Mobilization --> Crusade * Arrival & legitimacy as world power * Exposure to European culture * Export of jazz
9. SHEET1_170404_156.JPG: A Quest for Unity * General pleas * African-Americans, Irish-Americans, Italian-Americans * German-Americans [crossed out] * Stereotypes persist * Civil War (1861-1865) appeal to southern states
10. SHEET1_170404_164.JPG: Patriotism, Home and Hearth and the Role of Women * Uncle Sam * Service flag * Traditional flags -- wife, mother, archetypes * War work: Commercial -- nurse, Salvation Army. Vanity/ms -- agriculture, railroad
11. SHEET1_170404_179.JPG: Observations and Conclusion * Consistent with national message -- majority vanity & ms imitate / echo * Special interests -- (war related) * Domestic topics * Postwar issues * Personal views
12. SHEET1_170404_185.JPG: Observations and Conclusion * Broad spectrum * Vanity press/Manuscripts -- rare, unique * Source material -- collective consciousness of wartime America
13. SHEET1_170404_190.JPG: "A Soldiers Wife" All the time I've been at war, my wife was drawing pay, I was glad that I could do, that little thing for [???] But she has another brown [???] Who was always hanging round And he spent the money That I sent to her. Next time my country calls me, I surely hope that they Will not compel us soldiers to send our wives our pay
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