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The protest musicthat came out of the Vietnam Warera 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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Draft-card burning was a symbol of protest performed by thousands of young men in the United States and Australia in the 1960s and early 1970s as part of the anti-war movement. The first draft-card burners were American men participating in the opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War. The first well-publicized protest was in ...
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 ...
Phạm Duy (1921-2013), most prolific songwriter of Vietnam. With a musical career that spanned more than 70 years through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than 1000 songs to his credit. The Western-influenced popular music of Vietnam (Tân nhạc Việt Nam, "New music of Vietnam") developed from the 1940s ...
Arrested. 12,000. The 1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., protesting the United States' continuing involvement in the Vietnam War. The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5. In all, more than 12,000 people were arrested, in what was the ...
Radio First Termer. Radio First Termer was an underground pirate radio station that operated in January 1971 during the Vietnam War. The station was fronted by United States Air Force Sergeant Clyde David DeLay (August 15, 1948 — January 20, 2012), under the on-air pseudonym of "Dave Rabbit". [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] The two other members of his crew ...
Chris Noel [2] Chris Noel (Sandra Louise Noel, born July 2, 1941) is a retired American actress and entertainer. [3] Noel is best known for her appearances in beach party movies in the 1960s, [3] and for her work on the Armed Forces Radio And Television Service as the "Voice of Vietnam". [4] A popular pin-up girl of the era, [5] Noel made ...