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Summary
This is a history of the Second World War – as you have never heard it before.
Dancer, singer and intelligence agent Josephine Baker
German Nazi pianist Elly Ney
British pianist Myra Hess
Composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor
Ballerina Tatiana Vecheslova
Violinist Alma Rosé, conductor of the Auschwitz women’s orchestra
Jazz band the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
Prize-winning author Leah Broad brings to life the unsung stories of the trailblazing women who entertained the troops, fought for their country in secret and kept hope alive on the home front. Spanning Britain, Europe, Russia, and the United States, she reveals how these pioneering musicians shaped wartime culture, and how their private lives were in turn transformed, whether resisting or perpetrating national ideologies.
Unsung shows how these extraordinary women fought to perform, to create, to exist – and forges a radical new soundscape of the twentieth century.
LeahBroad
Leah Broad is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford University, specialising in twentieth-century music. She was one of 2016’s BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers and in 2015 won the Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. She writes and speaks for organisations including Glyndebourne, London Chamber Orchestra and the BBC Proms. Quartet is her celebrated first book.
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