
The Culture War
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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The Importance of Music in the War
It is absolutely amazing how we just completely take it for granted now. What's so interesting about in the war is you're getting these live performances, but people already know the songs because of records and because of radio. When you listen to those songs again, just how witty they are, and how funny and they are a piece of entertainment. But it also, it's about cultural changing relationship between art, art, artifacts in art, via technology, via mass transmission, via radio. And then, and then plugged into a war effort, which,. which then changes the relationship between everything, because after all, you're mobilising art for patriotic game.
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