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title: Music inspires in the service, industry, home, school
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/music-inspires-1942/
description: 'A colour poster in red, white and blue: a woman''s profile with a laurel wreath and a ribbon of musical staff, above a band of marching musicians.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Music inspires in the service, industry, home, school, 1942 US poster: A colour poster in red, white and blue](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/music-inspires-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/music-inspires-1942.jpg)

# Music inspires in the service, industry, home, school

A colour poster in red, white and blue: a woman's profile with a laurel wreath and a ribbon of musical staff, above a band of marching musicians, under a headline whose letters 'US' are drawn as a star-and-stripes flag. The abstract virtue 'inspires' (glittering generalities) is joined to flag colours and service imagery (transfer).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
mUSic INSPIRES
in the
SERVICE * INDUSTRY * HOME * SCHOOL
[signature:] JAMES AXELROD
[imprint:] COPYRIGHTED 1942 BY MUSIC INDUSTRIES WAR COUNCIL, CHICAGO
[imprint:] LITHO IN U. S. A.
```

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