In this podcast episode we talk about two famous love songs: one from China and one from Germany. And we will talk about the role of recorded music in the development of collective memories and about love songs as propaganda tools and sites of personal and political memories. 
We focus on the specifics of war memory through song and sound and on the role of censorship from the wartime period and into the present. 

Hosts: Andreas Steen and Wulf Kansteiner. 

This is the first episode of our podcast, Sounds of War. The podcast is produced and edited by Sigrid Saabye, and participating in this episode are Andreas Steen and Wulf Kansteiner.

The original podcast music is by Evan MacDonald. In this episode we also hear soundbites of songs and music by the singers Zhou Xuan, Teng Li-chun, and Jasmine Cheng performing their three different versions of the song, When will you return.

We also hear five different versions of the song, Lili Marleen, performed by Lale Anderson, Vera Lynn, Marlene Dietrich, Hannah Shigulla and the Heeresmusik-korp Kassel. 

The podcast is a part of the SoundTrak project, a research project affiliated at Aarhus University and funded by the Velux Foundation. For more information, go to our project website: https://cas.au.dk/en/soundtrak/