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    We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
    We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
    We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War
    Audiobook10 hours

    We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War

    Written by Doug Bradley and Craig Werner

    Narrated by Sean Runnette

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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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJun 6, 2017
    ISBN9781541474239

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      This book is essentially a long string of anecdotes, most of which relate to the Vietnam war and music. The authors divide the war into sensible eras and talks about each era's music, but I'm not convinced the differences are all that meaningful. They do mention that we REMFs experienced the war differently than the folks on the front lines, but don't really examine that analytically.One thing they do really well is let their subjects tell their own stories. Not only are there forty sidebars (called "Solos") which are explicitly written by someone about their war experience, but even within the authors' text the typical anecdote is predominantly a quotation from an interview.An interesting book, with good stories. But not really the book I hoped for; that would have had more analysis.