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[15] [16] Other topics include songs about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Christmas music referencing the Vietnam War, and Vietnam War songs referencing the Civil rights movement in the US (1950s-60s), the Silent majority, and the Domino theory. The project is a respected academic resource and a significant source of reference in popular culture.
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After the song's unexpected, rapid climb to the top of the UK Singles Chart, Chrysalis asked Vietnam Requiem directors Jonas McCord and Bill Couturié to rush a video into production. [12] Due to the lack of a band able to perform the song, the video was primarily composed of clips from the Vietnam Requiem documentary, edited together by Ken ...
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 ...
Soldiers stationed in Vietnam, listening to the song in June 1970, were undecided on whether the song was meant to protest the war itself or was "mocking a 'bad image' that many helicopter pilots and gunners feel they have acquired unfairly in the course of the war." [1] Music historian Justin Brummer, editor of the Vietnam War Song Project ...
An unnamed and psychotic Vietnam War veteran who returns from the Vietnam War sexually assaults and kills random women who stop at the filling station where he works as a gas station attendant. 1974 Canada Deathdream: Bob Clark: War veteran returns home as a living corpse. [31] 1974 US The Trial of Billy Jack: Tom Laughlin
A brief history of war in the media. Recordings of war for the masses, says Thompson, go back to the Trojan War, when "the medium was epic poetry, written centuries later."Eventually artists would ...
List of songs about the Vietnam War, songs depicting life and political system during the war Fortunate Son, famous American anti-war song during the war; Songs and poetry of Soviet servicemen deployed to Vietnam; Vietnam War Song Project, private organization that archives and analyze Vietnamese War songs