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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 ...
The Vietnam War Song Project ( VWSP) is an archive and interpretive examination of over 6000 Vietnam War songs identified. [ 1] It was founded in 2007 by its current editor, Justin A. Brummer, a historian with a PhD in contemporary Anglo-American relations from University College London. [ 2][ 3] The project analyses the lyrics, and collects ...
"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1965. [4] Several artists have recorded it, but the most popular recording was by Barry McGuire.. The song references social issues of its period, including the Vietnam War, the draft, the threat of nuclear war, the Civil Rights Movement, turmoil in the Middle East, and the American space program.
The song reflects on those who served in the Vietnam War and whose names are forever etched in stone at the Vietnam War Memorial. As of this writing, the wall currently has 58,000 names and counting.
W. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy. Walking on a Thin Line (song) War (The Temptations song) The War Is Over (Phil Ochs song) War Pigs. We Gotta Get Out of This Place. What the World Needs Now Is Love. What's Going On (song)
Dian Parkinson. Melody Patterson. Denise Perrier (African American Female Entertainers in Vietnam) [ 4] Suzanne Pleshette. Mala Powers. Stefanie Powers. Charley Pride. Penelope Plummer. Quintessence 1970 (Clive and Stanley Romney, Sheryl Albiston, Jack McDonald, Ruth Sorensen)
Another great influence on the anti-Vietnam war protest songs of the early seventies was the fact that this was the first generation where combat veterans were returning prior to the end of the war, and that even the veterans were protesting the war, as with the formation of the "Vietnam Veterans Against the War" (VVAW). Graham Nash wrote his ...