Neglo celebramo, pañolo burlamo: La negrilla en España y en América by Leonardo J. Waisman (review)

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the United States World War One Centennial Commission, for example, declares that “America Won the First World War with Song” (see https://www .worldwar1centennial.org/index.php /american-music-introduction.html, accessed 7 January 2023). Over Here, Over There is just one of several books dedicated to the war’s musical life (see, for example, Peter Grant, National Myth and the First World War in Modern Popular Music [London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017]; Christina Gier, Singing, Soldiering, and Sheet Music in America during the First World War [Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017]; and Don Tyler, Music of the First World War [Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2016]). That music played an important role in the conflict has never been less in doubt. In this crowded moment, Over Here, Over There shines by focusing not just on the music itself but on what the act of writing, performing, or witnessing music did for the many lives thrown together by the war.