Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, authors of We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, add to this emerging scholarship by examining the various ways American GIs used music to help them survive and recover from one of America’s most challenging and controversial military conflicts. Relying primarily on veterans. · movie Hamburger Hill. After more than 10 years of conversations with veterans, which ultimately resulted in the book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, 8 my coauthor Craig Werner and I.
Veteran and college prof probe 'The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War' at Rock Hall series Updated: Jan. 11, , p.m. | Published: Dec. 01, , p.m. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond) by Bradley, Doug, Werner, Craig. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , Doug Bradley and Craig Werner, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War (Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, , $). Pp. xi + isbn 1 4. - Volume 51 Issue 2.
That’s why We Gotta Get Out of this Place is so important: It preserves the impressions of those who were in the Vietnam War, listening, shooting, trying to stay alive. For authors Bradley and Werner, and those they write about, the music is part of a cultural milieu we all share. Even if we were born after the Vietnam War ended, we know the songs. In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War by Doug Bradley and Craig Werner (University of Massachusetts Press ) (). Rock 'n roll and country music seem to be the forms of music designated by the authors (and by Hollywood) as the soundtrack to the Vietnam War.
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