Lili Marleen - Cancion de Amor y Muerte (Spanish, Hardcover)

When Nazi composer Norbert Schultze put the words of a poem written in the trenches of World War I to music, "Lili Marleen," the musical sensation of the Second World War, was born. This investigation examines the popularity of a song that began as the nightly sign-off for the German forces' radio station and became an anthem for Allied and Axis alike. And yet, for every soldier who sang along to the lyrics that described the sadness of parted lovers, there were those--including Joseph Goebbels and a Polish audience that booed Marlene Dietrich off of the stage for singing it in German--who regarded it warily, and this book examines the controversy behind it as well. "Cuando el compositor nazi Norbert Schultze puso musica a un poema escrito en las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial, nacion "Lili Marleen," la sensacion musical de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Esta investigacion examina la popularidad de una cancion que comenzo como la despedida nocturna de la estacion de radio de las fuerzas alemanas y se convirtio en un himno tanto para los Aliados asi como para las Fuerzas del Eje. Por cada soldado que cantaba de la tristeza de unos enamorados separados, sin embargo, habian tambien aquellos--entre ellos Joseph Goebbels y una audiencia polaca que abucheo a Marlene Dietrich por cantarla en aleman--que consideraban la cancion con recelo, y este libro contempla tambien la controversia que la rodeaba."