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The goals of the project are: (1) to critically analyse the song lyrics, searching for historical, social, and cultural themes, and collecting data on the genre, location, ethnicity, nationality, language, and time period of the recordings; (2) to learn about the Vietnam War, and the music and artists associated with it; (3) to preserve the ...
The Vietnam War Song Project (VWSP) is an archive and interpretive examination of over 6000 Vietnam War songs identified. [1] It was founded in 2007 by its current editor, Justin A. Brummer, a historian with a PhD in contemporary Anglo-American relations from University College London. [2][3] The project analyses the lyrics, and collects data ...
He started compiling, writing, and editing this project in 2007 to share his Vietnam War song collection. Over the last 15+ years he has developed the VWSP to be a unique cultural-historical living archive, cataloguing, analysing, and digitising music that references the war.
Students begin this lesson by analyzing a famous protest song and discussing the reason for and impact of protest songs. Students will then focus on one of the most protested events in history, the Vietnam War. Students will receive a comprehensive overview of the conflict in Vietnam via power point and class discussion.
KNOW (KNOWLEDGE): • The changing media representation of war during the Vietnam era. • The growing opposition of many citizens, particularly young Americans, to the Vietnam conflict in the 1960s. • The influence of the baby boom, popular media, and popular music on the antiwar movement.
In this lesson, students will learn how a number of songs released during and after the Vietnam War articulated the experiences of Americans who served in the United States Armed Forces during the war.
This is a list of songs concerning, revolving around, or directly referring to the Vietnam War, or to the Vietnam War's after-effects. For a more complete listing see "Vietnam on Record", [ 1 ] and the Vietnam War Song Project .
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