Public Talk by David Suisman, Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware: “‘Music and Guns Go Hand in Hand’: World War I and the Sonic History of American Warfare”

David Suisman is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delaware and the author of the awarded and widely read book Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music. On March 23, he will present “‘Music and Guns Go Hand in Hand’: World War I and the Sonic History of American Warfare,” a preview of his current book project (to be published in 2024 by the University of Chicago Press): Instrument of War: Music and the Making of America’s Soldiers, a path-breaking study of the ways music has enabled U.S. war-making from the Civil War to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.