Popular Culture
Dublin Core
Title
Popular Culture
Subject
Popular Culture
Description
During the First World War, popular culture documented the events of the war, as well as its lasting effects upon bodies and brains. Films, music, comics, and newspapers all reflected the events of the war, along with major assumptions regarding shellshock as a disability. This collection organizes popular culture of the First World War as a means of viewing shell-shock.
Collection Items
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The following item shows a pictorial comic, featuring two men standing in the foreground, while the background features a green wall with a black door in it. On the wall, a sign reads, "Bones Broken While You Wait." One man uses crutches, while the…
The Shell-shock Shake
This piece of ragtime music satirizes the stereotypic movements of those diagnosed with shellshock. For voice and piano.
The lyrics of this musical arrangement reads thus:
Verse 1:Over there, somewhere in France, our boys have learned a brand-new…