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We gotta get out of this place : the soundtrack of the Vietnam War / Doug Bradley and Craig Werner.

By: Bradley, Doug, 1947- [author.]Contributor(s): Werner, Craig Hansen, 1952- [author.]Material type: Text

TextSeries: Culture, politics, and the Cold WarPublisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2015Description: 240 pages : illustrationsContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781625341624 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Music and the war | Popular music -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century | Popular music -- United States -- 1961-1970 -- History and criticism | Popular music -- United States -- 1971-1980 -- History and criticism | Music | MusicDDC classification: 781.6'4'097309046 Summary: Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why US 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.

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Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why US 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.

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