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By 1940, 80% of American households would own a radio; [1] making American music far more accessible to civilians and soldiers alike. Although the radio could be used to boost American morale, the American Government censored radio channels in fear that enemy agents may be sending coded messages through song requests on the stations.
Many American social movements have inspired protest songs spanning a variety of musical genres including but not limited to rap, folk, rock, and pop music. Though early 18th century songs stemmed from the American colonial period as well as in response to the Revolutionary war, protest songs have and continue to cover a wide variety of subjects.
Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others patronize war.Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole.
This article includes an overview of the major events and trends in popular music in the 1940s. In the developed world, swing, big band, jazz, Latin and country music dominated and defined the decade's music. After World War II, the big band sounds of the earlier part of the decade had been gradually replaced by crooners and vocal pop.
Between 1938 and 1944, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra released 266 singles on the monaural ten-inch shellac 78 rpm format. Their studio output comprised a variety of musical styles inside of the Swing genre, including ballads, band chants, dance instrumentals, novelty tracks, songs adapted from motion pictures, and, as the Second World War approached, patriotic music.
Here's a list of the best songs from the time, ranging from Toto to Michael Jackson. The 1980s produced chart-topping hits in pop, hip-hop, rock, and R&B. ... And the music was so, so good ...
Pages in category "1940s instrumentals" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. ... Guitar Boogie (song) P. Pennsylvania 6-5000 (song) T. The ...
The first patriotic war song of WWII in the U.S. was "God Bless America," written by Irving Berlin for a World War I wartime revue, but it was withheld and later revised and used in World War II. [4] There were many other patriotic wartime songs during this time such as, " A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " by Glenn Miller and "Arms for ...