TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradley,Doug
AU  - Werner,Craig Hansen
TI  - We gotta get out of this place: the soundtrack of the Vietnam War 
T2  - Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
SN  - 9781625341976
AV  - ML3918 .W446 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Amherst
PB  - University of Massachusetts Press
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Music and the war
KW  - Popular music
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 1961-1970
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 1971-1980
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; Introduction: The Vietnam veterans' national anthem --; "Goodbye my sweetheart, hello Vietnam" : the soundscape takes shape --; "Bad moon rising" : the soundtracks of LBJ's war --; "I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die" : protest, pot, black power, and the (psychedelic) sound of Nixon's war --; "Chain of fools" : radios, guitars, eight tracks (and silence in the field) --; "What's going on" : music and the long road home; 2; b
N2  - "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 --
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