Music & World War II

WWII brought about a tremendous increase of technology. It was the first war during the age of mass electronically distributed music; for the first time people were able to listen to music from there homes, and roughly 90% of American households own a radio. This allowed for the music that was being published and produced at the time to get ample exposure to the public. There is a whole category of music that emerges during WWII. Nationalism was on the rise and country's used music as a means for war propaganda. Music and popularity of the radio had a tremendous impact on WWII as musicians could relate to the public mass about the hardships of war