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The protest music that came out of the Vietnam War era was stimulated by the unfairness of the draft, the loss of American lives in Vietnam, and the unsupported expansion of war. The Vietnam War era (1955–1975) was a time of great controversy for the American public. Desperate to stop the spread of communism in South-East Asia, the United ...
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Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) Mission statement "This project is an interpretive examination of over 6,000 Vietnam War songs identified, revealing how the war's significance is represented through music" Type of project: Free, open history, online, and physical archive: Location: Austin, Texas, U.S. Founder: Justin Brummer: Established
Songs for the spirits: Music and mediums in modern Vietnam. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Norton, B. (2013). Vietnamese popular song in '1968': War, protest and sentimentalism. In Music and protest in 1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pham, N. (16 June 2010). Risking life for pop music in wartime Vietnam. BBC News.
Outside of pop music, folk, punk and country music continue to follow their strong traditions of protest. Utah Philips, and David Rovics, among many other singers, have continued the folk tradition of protest. In John Mayer's 2006 release CONTINUUM, the lead single "Waiting on the World to Change", Mayer is critical of the desensitizing of ...
One of the most infamous live albums of the ‘70s is barely music at all. In the King of Rock and Roll’s less profitable final years, his manager, Col. Tom Parker, came up with the incorrect ...
The following entertainers performed for U.S. military personnel and their allies in the combat theatre during the Vietnam War (1959–1975) Roy Acuff (1970) Anna Maria Alberghetti
The Vietnam War: 1936: Johnny Johnson: Kurt Weill: World War I: 1959: The Sound of Music: Rodgers & Hammerstein: World War II: 1989: Miss Saigon: Claude-Michel Schönberg: The Vietnam War: 2016: Mula Sa Buwan: Myke Salomon: World War II: 1963: Oh, What a Lovely War! Joan Littlewood: World War I