{"id":3265,"date":"2022-11-10T20:40:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T20:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2024-02-20T23:29:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T23:29:25","slug":"celebrating-veterans-day-through-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2022\/11\/10\/celebrating-veterans-day-through-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Veterans Day Through Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/files\/2022\/11\/Veterans-Day-Graphic-Final-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3266\" src=\"https:\/\/libraryarchives.web.illinois.edu\/sousa\/files\/2022\/11\/Veterans-Day-Graphic-Final-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"836\" \/><\/a>The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music wishes to remind all of our viewers that Veterans Day honors the sacrifice and duty of all our active duty and veteran military troops who have served our country in times of war and peace.\u00a0 After investing their lives in the defense of our nation, they deserve our continuing support and recognition throughout the year, but most of all on Veterans Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">After the United States declared war against Germany on April 6, 1917 America\u2019s sheet music industry joined forces with the U.S. Committee on Public Information (CPI) to help sell the nation\u2019s new war ideals to the American public \u2013 unconditional patriotism, sacrifice, volunteerism, and support for the country\u2019s involvement.\u00a0 Between 1917 and 1920 composers, lyricists, and music publishers produced hundreds of songs that promoted the country\u2019s war effort with such tunes as \u201cOver There,\u201d \u201cI Did Not Raise My Boy to be a Coward,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cGoodbye Broadway, Hello France,\u201d \u00a0and \u201cCan\u2019t You Hear Your Country Calling.\u201d \u00a0A 1918 CPI bulletin declared, \u201cthe singing army, whether it be a fighting army or a working army, cannot be beaten\u201d to champion the selfless work of all individuals on both the war and home fronts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Center\u2019s rich collections of music, particularly the James Edward Myers Sheet Music Collection, celebrate veterans and their contributions to America during times of peace and war. \u00a0So as we honor our country\u2019s veterans on Veterans Day, why not spend a little time exploring the music of our <a href=\"https:\/\/digital.library.illinois.edu\/collections\/692ae4c0-c09b-0134-2371-0050569601ca-6\">Myers<\/a> sheet music collection and discover how America\u2019s composers celebrated the men and women who served our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music wishes to remind all of our viewers that Veterans Day honors the sacrifice and duty of all our active duty and veteran military troops who have served our country in times of war and peace.\u00a0 After investing their lives in the defense of our nation, they deserve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3823,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}