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- ISBN
- 9781625341976
- Publication Name
- We Gotta Get Out of this Place : the Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Series
- Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 12.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam's Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'." For a "tunnel rat" who blew smoke into the Viet Cong's underground tunnels, it was Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze." For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools." And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die," "Who'll Stop the Rain," or the song that gives this book its title. 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. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans-black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and "grunts"-whose personal reflections drive the book's narrative. Many of the voices are those of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also "solo" pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the war-Karl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur Flowers-as well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced soldiers' lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps into memories-individual and cultural-that capture a central if often overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.
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Publisher
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
ISBN-10
1625341970
ISBN-13
9781625341976
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215286593
Product Key Features
Publication Name
We Gotta Get Out of this Place : the Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Series
Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ml3918.P67b73 2015
Grade from
College Graduate Student
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We Gotta Get Out of This Place is highly recommended to scholars and popular audiences interested in understanding the individual experiences of American troops who served in Vietnam, as well as to returning veterans seeking to overcome distressing memories of their own wartime experiences., Authors Doug Bradley and Craig Werner have given us a gift: a compendious book that looks at the music we rock-and-roll-generation Americans who served in the Vietnam War listened to.... For anyone who wants to know about music and the Vietnam War, this is the book to read. Will another book ever be needed? I can't imagine it. This is the book that I've long wanted on this subject. If I were still teaching a course on the Vietnam War, I would use this book as a text., Doug Bradley and Craig Werner's account of music's connection to the Vietnam War is intimate and deeply informative, with a scope that encompasses both the war itself and the way that music has helped raise awareness of veterans' issues long after its end. We Gotta Get Out of This Place gives the reader a good sense of how the popularity of different songs and styles waxed and waned over the years, as the mood of the war changed. It also gives plenty of space for extended first-person narratives (dubbed 'Solos') offering a diverse array of viewpoints, including many from veterans who found themselves in anti-war camps, those who felt more conflicted about the anti-war movement, and musicians like Country Joe McDonald and James Brown. Nuanced and frequently moving. #1 Music Book for 2015, Thoroughly researched, powerfully written and insightful... Perhaps most fascinatingly of all, We Gotta Get Out of This Place demonstrates how the music that found its way into the lives of the men and women who fought the war changed as the war dragged on, reflecting the dramatic changes 'back in the world.'... In the concluding 'Solo' of the book, Vietnam vet Jay Maloney begins, 'There is no such thing as one Vietnam. There were more than two and a half million of them.' No single book could capture that many Vietnams, or the multitude of voices needed to describe them, any more than you could squeeze that many singers onto a single 45 RPM record or write a song to evoke all of their experiences. But the remarkable achievement of Bradley and Werner's We Gotta Get Out of This Place is how close they've come to making that many voices of Vietnam veterans heard., "Intimate and deeply informative, with a scope that encompasses both the war itself and the way that music has helped raise awareness of veterans' issues long after its end." --Rolling Stone, Intimate and deeply informative, with a scope that encompasses both the war itself and the way that music has helped raise awareness of veterans' issues long after its end., Music can be ephemeral and evanescent. 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.
Copyright Date
2015
Topic
History & Criticism, General, United States / General, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Lccn
2015-024892
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Music, History, Social Science
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