World War I had a significant impact on U.S. music-making and its reception, different from other wars in the challenge posed to a U.S. symphonic and operatic musical culture that was so deeply rooted in Austro-Germanic music as to be considered a musical colony of the Central Powers. At the same time, as with all wars, music performed important functions such as the bolstering of morale, military recruiting, and the assertion of at least the illusion of a unified national identity. Ironically, a conflict that was promoted as one that would preserve freedom led to domestic censorship of German music and the internment and deportation of orchestral musicians. Fueled by the Committee on Public Information—the federal government's information ministry, led by George Creel—many citizens of the United States demonstrated their loyalty to the country in ways that both...