Why Are There so Many Vietnam War Songs?

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The Vietnam War was one of the biggest conflicts of the cold war, claiming millions of lives and causing untold amount of destruction, yet today a big part of its legacy has been reduced to the music that emerged as a result of the conflict. The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival and numerous other musicians have been repeatedly associated with the war, with their music occupying the soundtracks of films, video games and TV shows that revolve around the conflict? Fortunate Son has become the unofficial soundtrack to the war. But why is this? Why does the Vietnam War have such a strong musical identity?
Music:
Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon
For What it's Worth - Buffalo Springfield
Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Ohio - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones
White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
California Dreamin' - The Mamas and Papas
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan
Timestamps:
00:00 - March on DC
01:13 - Fortunate Son
02:20 - Counterculture
04:35 - Vietnam War Films
05:23 - Music in Vietnam
06:17 - Soundtrack to Protests
06:42 - Impact of the War

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11 июн 2024

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Комментарии : 23

@ArcherGreen Год назад

Thanks for watching! I tried out a new style for this video, if you're a fan, hit the like button!

@ronanf36 Год назад

I’m surprised to see how few subscribers you have, I reckon you’re gonna be huge. You’ve definitely earned a like and follow from me 👍

@ArcherGreen Год назад

Thanks (:

@skrenek12 3 месяца назад

Thanks for covering this. New sub here. As someone who came of age in the late 60s/early 70s with protest music being more common, I'm disappointed that there isn't more music commenting on current issues today.

@ladeecewashuruhm6163 Год назад

Great video. Too bad RU-vid will demonetized or take down this video.

@ArcherGreen Год назад

Already had to reupload with a cover of Ohio rather than the original

@wtcben Год назад

It's great to see you expanding in a new direction, and I think it is refreshing to address music and films indirectly in their political context. It helps us to understand the importance of media and criticism as a reaction to social and political events. I can remember watching "Forrest Gump" for the first time as a child and being introduced to Jimi Hendrix and Creedence Clearwater Revival. "Fortunate Son" is still one of my favourite songs ever and I think that some of the songs written in this period and covered in this video are some of the best ever written, "Gimme Shelter" especially. Keep up the good work. The visual style you adopted in this video was similar to Polyphonic. I don't know if you drew inspiration from him but if not I would recommend checking his channel out. I'd say this is easily up to the calibre of his videos, so for a first effort in this new direction I highly commend you.

@ArcherGreen Год назад

Thanks! Yeah this was definitely inspired by Polyphonic after watching his video on The House of the Rising Sun

@je6874 Год назад

Amazing video

@JJKoester Год назад

This was really well made! Thanks for posting it.

@ArcherGreen Год назад

Thank you so much!

@Scrunggle Год назад

I just wanna say I've been binging you're stuff and you deserve way more! This video in particular is great very educational and entertaining at the same time while not undermining the tragedy of it all. This is beautiful!

@prod.bamburg9377 Год назад

awesome channel man you're gonna be big

@SOLIDSNAKE. Год назад

You'll be big in no time

@gregoryb6 Год назад

Its nice you addended a moral about real people. The war movie sound tracks are all the top ten hits about drugs sex and rock and roll. Actual vietnam war protest songs were hardly heard.

@ArcherGreen Год назад

Yeah, it’s important to remember what actually happened, not just reducing the war down to the American experience and the music that came from it

@dreat1527 Год назад

This is the End from the beginning of Apocalypse Now!

@IggyBlob Год назад

Great video, how come such a low sub count? Maybe try ads?

@Johan-ej8xb Год назад

Great content, can you make a video on what makes once upon a time in the west so great.

@wtcben Год назад

There's a couple of videos on this channel which indirectly address "Once Upon a Time in the West", such as the recent video on the decline of the Western and the video released a couple a years ago on Sergio Leone, but I also agree that it would be great to see a video explicitly dedicated to this film at one point, as it is also one of my favourites.

@nik021298 2 месяца назад

Well you got that video at some point

@chavruta2000 Год назад

there aren't that many.

@kelechi_77 8 месяцев назад

There's a whole website dedicated to cataloguing and archiving old Vietnam era anti-war songs, there's quite a lot, I'm a huge fan of '60s psychedelia and almost every single psych album from the era albeit mainstream or underground has 1 or 2 songs that are about Vietnam or reference it.