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This page intentionally left blank Advance Praise for We Gotta Get Out of This Place “When you realize the average age of a combat soldier in Vietnam was 19, you can better appreciate how music would be indelibly written into the experiences of that powerfully formative time. This amazing book does justice to conveying the power and emotional impact of music throughout that era.”—Bobby Muller, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, Vietnam 1968–69, Founder and President, Vietnam Veterans of America “Through the testimonies Bradley and Werner collect we see, firsthand, how music provides a window into the war and tensions over genera- tion, region, and race. Music becomes much more than an artifact of culture; it is the stuff of memory and part of the complex ways we all make meaning.”—Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr., author of Latinos at the Golden Gate “We Gotta Get Out of This Place is chock full of materials that present multi-voiced memories of how popular music related to the experi- ences of American GIs in and after the Vietnam War. . . . [A]n engaging and worthwhile read.”—Michael J. Kramer, author of The Republic of Rock: Music and Citizenship in the Sixties Counterculture A volume in the series Culture, Politics, and the Cold War edited by Christian G. Appy and edwin A. martini other titles in the series James T. Fisher, Dr. America: The Lives of Robert Surbrug Jr., Beyond Vietnam: The Thomas A. Dooley, 1927–1961 Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974–1990 Daniel Horowitz, Betty Friedan and the Larry Grubbs, Secular Missionaries: Americans Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The and African Development in the 1960s American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Robert A. 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Parker, Making the Desert Modern: Americans, Arabs, and Oil on the Saudi Jeremy Kuzmarov, The Myth of the Addicted Frontier, 1933–1973 Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs We Gotta Get Out of This Place This page intentionally left blank We Gotta Get Out of This Place The S oundTrack o f The V ieTnam W ar Doug Bradley and Craig Werner University of Massachusetts Press Amherst & Boston Copyright © 2015 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America ISBN 978-1-62534-162-4 (paperback); 197-6 (hardcover) Designed by Jack Harrison Set in Monotype Dante with Rockwell display Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bradley, Doug, 1947– We gotta get out of this place : the soundtrack of the Vietnam War / Doug Bradley and Craig Werner. pages cm. — (Culture, politics, and the Cold War) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62534-162-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-62534-197-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Vietnam War, 1961–1975—Music and the war. 2. Popular music—Social aspects—History—20th century. 3. Popular music—United States—1961–1970—History and criticism. 4. Popular music—United States—1971–1980—History and criticism. I. Werner, Craig Hansen, 1952– II. Title. ML3918.P67B73 2015 781.640973'09046—dc23 2015024892 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. To the Men and Women Who Shared Their Stories and Their Songs. Welcome Home! This page intentionally left blank
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