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This book represents the remarkably creative coming together of an academic with a great singer/songwriter. The result is an extraordinarily moving account of a combination of Great War remembrance and committed activism in which Eric Bogles songs are analysed in terms of the contexts of their creation and the profound ideals which they promote. The book includes an illuminating interview with Bogle during a centennial visit to the battlefield of the Somme. All those with an interest in the First World War and the poetry and folk music it inspired will find that reading it offers a truly profound experience.

John M. MacKenzie, Emeritus Professor of Imperial History at Lancaster University, UK

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Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War

Eric Bogle has written many iconic songs that deal with the futility and waste of war. Two of these in particular, And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda and No Mans Land (a.k.a. The Green Fields of France), have been recorded numerous times in a dozen or more languages indicating the universality and power of their simple message. Bogles other compositions about the First World War give a voice to the voiceless, prominence to the forgotten and personality to the anonymous as they interrogate the human experience, celebrate its spirit and empathise with its suffering.

This book examines Eric Bogles songs about the Great War within the geographies and socio-cultural contexts in which they were written and consumed. From Anzac Day in Australia and Turkey to the The Troubles in Northern Ireland and from small Aboriginal communities in the Coorong to the influence of prime ministers and rock stars on a world stage, we are urged to contemplate the nature and importance of popular culture in shaping contemporary notions of history and national identity. It is entirely appropriate that we do so through the words of an artist who Melody Maker described as the most important songwriter of our time.

Michael J. K. Walsh has published widely on cultural responses to, and interpretations of, the Great War. He is the author of: This Cult of Violence (2002) and Hanging a Rebel (2008); editor of A Dilemma of English Modernism (2007) and London, Modernism and 1914 (2010); and co-editor of Australia and the Great War: Identity, Memory and Mythology (2016) and The Great War and the British Empire: Culture and Society (2016). He is Associate Professor of Art History at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

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Routledge Studies in First World War History

Series Editor
John Bourne
The University of Birmingham, UK

The First World War is a subject of perennial interest to historians and is often regarded as a watershed event, marking the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the modern industrial world. The sheer scale of the conflict and massive loss of life means that it is constantly being assessed and reassessed to examine its lasting military, political, sociological, industrial, cultural and economic impact. Reflecting the latest international scholarly research, the Routledge Studies in First World War History series provides a unique platform for the publication of monographs on all aspects of the Great War. While the main thrust of the series is on the military aspects of the conflict, other related areas (including cultural, visual, literary, political and social) are also addressed. Books published are aimed primarily at a post-graduate academic audience, furthering exciting recent interpretations of the war, while still being accessible enough to appeal to a wider audience of educated lay readers.

Also in this series:

Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War
An Old Mans Tears
Michael J. K. Walsh

Military Service Tribunals and Boards in the Great War
Determining the Fate of Britains and New Zealands Conscripts
David Littlewood

The Royal Flying Corps, the Western Front and the Control of the Air, 19141918
James Pugh

The Great War and the British Empire
Culture and Society
Edited by Michael J. K. Walsh and Andrekos Varnava

Aerial Propaganda and the Wartime Occupation of France, 19141918
Bernard Wilkin

www.routledge.com/history/series/WWI

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Eric Bogle, Music and
the Great War

An Old Mans Tears

Michael J. K. Walsh

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First published 2018
by Routledge
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2018 Michael J. K. Walsh

The right of Michael J. K. Walsh to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Walsh, Michael J. K., 1968- author.

Title: Eric Bogle, music and the Great War : An old mans tears / Michael Walsh.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in First World War history | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017036623| ISBN 9781138719118 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315195582 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Bogle, EricCriticism and interpretation. | Protest songsAustraliaHistory and criticism. | World War, 19141918 Music and the War. | Northern IrelandHistory19681998Songs and musicHistory and criticism.

Classification: LCC ML420.B6566 W35 2018 | DDC 782.42162/240092dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017036623

ISBN: 978-1-138-71911-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-19558-2 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK

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For Gl, Erdal and Ara

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My thanks go to the Ministry of Education in Singapore which generously funded my project Conflict and Culture/Conflicting Cultures: An Old Mans Tears The War Poems of Eric Bogle in 2015. Without this funding neither the book nor the film, would have been possible. Thanks go to Dean Alan Chan and Professor Vibeke Sorensen for granting me sabbatical leave to write this book and thank you also to the University of Padua for hosting me during the process. Melissa Lovell was, and always has been, a pleasure to work with getting the manuscript ready for submission. I would like to thank Dan Frodsham and Liam Tulley for their patience and expertise in filming the documentary Eric Bogle: Return to No Mans Land in France in 2016, and Dan, in particular, for important discussions on film as research, and the importance of online collaborative/curated platforms to give voices to todays voiceless. My thanks also go to Ryan Johnston and Anthea Gunn at the Australian War Memorial for inviting me to run the curators workshop on The Future of Remembrance and to speak about And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda

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