Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War: 'An Old Man's Tears' - Paperback

by Michael J. K. Walsh (Author)

This book examines Eric Bogle's 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

Author Biography

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.