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The purpose of this project is for those listening to learn about the Vietnam War, the music and the artists. It also seeks to preserve the records for the future. See playlists for different...
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 ...
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.
- ‘How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?’
- The Silent Majority?
- ‘Now I’m 1-A’
- War Is Over?
In the war’s early stages, protest songs voiced the concerns of a minority movement. Most Vietnam songs released during Kennedy’s presidency articulated a reluctance to be drafted. In 1962, the Californian folk duo Goldcoast Singers released ‘Please Mr. Kennedy’, with an unambiguous message to the president: ‘I don’t want to go’. Fewer than 80 Amer...
Anti-war sentiment fuelled a large discography, but so did anti-communist sentiment. Opinion polls showed vast support for presidential policy across the Heartland and Southern states, in areas with ties to agriculture and religion. Patriotic songs supporting the government and troops filled the country charts and radio stations from the JFK to the...
According to the Veteran's Administration, of the 3.5 million people who went to Vietnam, 2.2 million did so via the draft. The experience is reflected in hundreds of songs. ‘1-A’ was the classification for those eligible for service, a recognised phrase sung by Richie Kaye in ‘Here Comes Uncle Sam’ (1965): ‘I'm through with school, now I'm 1-A, I ...
The North Vietnamese Army captured Saigon in April 1975. US military involvement in Vietnam was over, but the war continued to reverberate throughout American society. Almost half of the Vietnam War song discography was released in the postwar period. The first wave of songs appeared between the 1973 peace agreement and the fall of Saigon. Many Ame...
May 10, 2024 · A roundup of videos to show your students that cover many of the major topics of the Vietnam War. Use these videos in your classroom to reinforce or teach information about the Vietnam War.
Sep 25, 2018 · Fifty years on, more than 5,000 songs have been recorded about the war, forming an international conversation about a conflict that tore apart the fabric of politics, society and culture. With the US divided between ‘hawks’ and ‘doves’, music became a powerful communication tool for both sides.
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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.
