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Feb 8, 2016 · Music enabled countless soldiers in Vietnam to connect with each other and to ‘the World’ back home, while helping them cope with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight.
Dec 7, 2015 · With the crucial exception of combat situations, music was just about everywhere in Vietnam, reaching soldiers via albums, cassettes, and tapes of radio shows sent from home; on the Armed...
Sep 27, 2017 · Between radio, portable record players, early cassette players and live bands coming to Vietnam, soldiers in that war had far more access to music than their forebears.
Whereas during past wars, musicians wrote songs to unite Americans, Vietnam-era music spoke to the growing numbers of disillusioned citizens, and brought attention to the cultural fissures...
Mar 13, 2018 · With the crucial exception of combat, music was ubiquitous in Vietnam, reaching soldiers via albums, cassettes and tapes of radio shows sent from home; on the Armed Forces Vietnam Network,...
- Doug Bradley
How did popular music amplify the voices and experiences of Americans serving in the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War?
Some of the best anecdotes are about songs rooted to place, Werner says. One veteran talked about how his experience on Vietnam’s China Beach is always evoked by Otis Redding’s “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay,” and its desperate and defiant lyrics.
