Wednesday, June 8, 2016
4pm
Towner Fellows’ Lounge
Bill Brooks, Professor of Music at the University of York and NEH/Lloyd Lewis Fellow in American History at the Newberry Library
Newberry Colloquium
Sheet music is, of course, a vehicle for notating sound-for writing down a piece of music. But sheet music imprints tell us much more than how the music goes, and a careful comparison at details (in conjunction with other sources) often brings into view a hidden history that reveals much about the function of a song. This talk will focus on just one example: the 1917 song “After the War Is Over,” in all (well, at least some) of its transformations.