1st Edition
Eric Bogle, Music and the Great War 'An Old Man's Tears'
Introduction – Eric and me 1. Eric Bogle – Early Life, Work and a Culture of Protest 2. ‘Tired old heroes from a forgotten war’: And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, Australia and Gallipoli 3. ‘When this war is over’: Remembering and Forgetting in Australia 4. ‘A warm summer breeze’: No Man’s Land, Ireland and the Afterlives of Willie McBride 5. ‘A Stranger Without Even a Name:’ An Interview with Eric Bogle at the Somme, 2016 6. ‘Old Men Still Talk and Argue:’ Remembrance, Education and the Future of the Past Conclusion ‘Again and again and again and again…’ Bibliography Discography
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.
"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 Bogle’s 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
"Eric Bogle is our greatest songwriter. This book shows a skilled professional at work – and, typically, working hard to underplay his importance!"
- Bill Gammage, Author of The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War.
