A revelatory angle on a colossal historical event, transforming what we think we know about women's experience of war... A fresh and kaleidoscopic account that is deeply serious about why sound and music matter.
- Whiting Grant Jury
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** COMING 25 FEBRUARY 2027 **
This is a history of the Second World War – as you have never heard it before.
Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine Baker
German Nazi pianist Elly Ney British pianist Myra Hess Composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor Ballerina Tatiana Vecheslova Violinist Alma Rosé Jazz band the International Sweethearts of Rhythm These are the unsung stories of trailblazing women who entertained the troops, fought for their country in secret and kept hope alive on the home front. Spanning Britain, Europe, Russia, and the United States, this book reveals how these pioneering musicians shaped wartime culture, and how their private lives were in turn transformed, whether resisting or perpetrating national ideologies. Unsung shows how these extraordinary women fought to perform, to create, to exist – and forges a radical new soundscape of the twentieth century. |