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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."".

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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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University of Massachusetts Press
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9781625341976
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Craig Werner, Douglas Bradley
Publication Name
We Gotta Get Out of this Place: the Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
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Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
240 Pages

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229mm
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152mm
Item Weight
489g

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Douglas Bradley, Craig Werner
Topic
Music
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United States

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