How Music Won the War in Jingle Boys by Herb Williams-Dalgart

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Herb Williams-Dalgart discusses his novel Jingle Boys, exploring the role of music in wartime and its personal significance related to his grandfather's WWII experience.

Send us Fan Mail My guest today is Herb Williams-Dalgart, author of Jingle Boys listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction. View the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/azuaBStafaI Herb's personal origin story behind the novel: named after his grandfather who died in WWII, a man he never knew, which sparked a lifelong fascination with the era.How the role of music in wartime, harmony versus the disharmony of war, became the central thematic engine of the novel.The surprising historical t...

People in this episode

Host: Carol M. Cram

Guest: Herb Williams-Dalgart

Topics covered

• music in wartime
• historical fiction
• personal stories
• thematic analysis
• WWII

Keywords

• music
• war
• Jingle Boys
• Herb Williams-Dalgart
• WWII
• thematic analysis
• historical fiction

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Jingle Boys

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