Start your research by reviewing the work done by Dr. Lydia Fish at SUNY-Buffalo
(716)878-6110. She also moderates a listserv the address of which escapes
me, but I think you can get it by visiting the WWW site for Vietnam
Generation, Inc.
[2]
Tim Novak in Sociology at San Diego State University recently wrote a very
innovative M.A. Thesis on music as opposition, focusing on tonal structure
and illustrated by Nine-Inch Nails. This isn't about Vietnam per se, but
could be useful generally. You could write to him c/o Sociology at SDSU,
San Diego, CA 92182-4423. Jim Wood
>Hello. I'm new to the list and am thrilled to find a place where people
>discuss the things I am interested in.
>
>I am wondering if anyone can direct me to sources that discuss the role
>popular music played for the troops in VietNam. I think it's more widely
>recognized that music was used as a way of speaking against it in the U.S.
>I am interested in discovering the uses to which it was put in Viet Nam.
>(This question stems from recent readings about the potential for resist-
>ance in popular culture, as well as Oliver Stone's comment that he could
>not have made it through the VN war without the Doors [a very loose and
>distant recall of the comment].) If anyone has any information about
>this, whether the music was used as morale-booster, coping mechanism, or
>even resistance, I would love to hear it.
>
>Thanks --
>
>Kim Heikkila
>klheikkila@alex.stkate.edu
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new e-mail address: jwood@mail.sdsu.edu
>Hello. I'm new to the list and am thrilled to find a place where people
>discuss the things I am interested in.
>
>I am wondering if anyone can direct me to sources that discuss the role
>popular music played for the troops in VietNam. I think it's more widely
>recognized that music was used as a way of speaking against it in the U.S.
>I am interested in discovering the uses to which it was put in Viet Nam.
>(This question stems from recent readings about the potential for resist-
>ance in popular culture, as well as Oliver Stone's comment that he could
>not have made it through the VN war without the Doors [a very loose and
>distant recall of the comment].) If anyone has any information about
>this, whether the music was used as morale-booster, coping mechanism, or
>even resistance, I would love to hear it.
>
>Thanks --
>
>Kim Heikkila
>klheikkila@alex.stkate.edu
>
>
>
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