Drawing on materials found in The Louis and Jodi Atkin Family Collection and the Gaylord Music Library Sheet Music Collection, this exhibit investigates American political attitudes during World War I as revealed in the popular music of the time.
- Learn how the musical and visual rhetoric of sheet music changed following the U.S.A.'s entrance into WWI.
- Find out about America's dual vision of France as both a wartorn nation and a cosmopolitan center.
- Understand the mixed feelings of German-American citizens, caught between loyalties.
- See how St. Louis publishers paid tribute to the the American armed forces.