Posted on Jan 2, 2015
Do you think music from the Vietnam Era is coming back into relevance in today's America?
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For those of us who grew up or had come of age during the Vietnam Era the music was mind blowing/boggling depending which side of the fence you were on. My question is this: Is the music of the Vietnam Era coming back into relevance in today's America?
Why or Why Not?
Why or Why Not?
Music
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Edited 11 y ago
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50s, 60s, 70s music is about all I listen to. I believe that a few hundred years from now, if the world is still turning, people will still be listening to '60s music. Johnny Cash, Ian and Sylvia, Peter Paul and Mary are some of my favorites, but there are dozens more that I personally enjoy listening to. Porter Wagoner, Buck Owens, Tom T. Hall, SSG Barry Sadler, June Carter, Loretta Lynn. Way too many to mention. Even though I don't care for a lot of his songs, I love his style of music -- Pete Seeger.
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Yes, I like country music. Folk too. And I'm listening to Johnny Cash as I type this post.
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Flashback Fridays on NBC 6- Rowan & Martin's Laugh In
This week we look at the pioneering Variety Show: Rowan & Martin's Laugh In. The show aired in NBC from 1968-1973. Copyright NBCUniversal
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I will also add, though, that if you are going into the deeper sense of "civil disobedience" and protest that marked the Vietnam Era, I find it intriguing. I certainly felt like there was a surge during... well... the Surge :) Groups like Greenday and such tried to be political, and make commentary, but I think Modern Social Media has crippled music's capabilities today. During the 60s, music was probably the easiest way to reach a large audience, and couple be replicated and repeated. Not even television could do that in such a mass way. Now in the 2000s, Social Media, Computers, Streaming and Recording Technology, and the like, have made music a form of entertainment, but I no longer feel the most powerful, not the most readily available, or able to be disseminated en mass.
Your thoughts?
Your thoughts?
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A case in point is that certain viral YouTube videos have millions of hits and views, within days. The all-time best selling music album (Michael Jackson's Thriller) had 40 million. I think we've noticed a real societal shift in our lifetime, and to be honest, it makes me sad. Especially because I prefer the music of the 60s and 70s, particularly what I call the "Classic Rock".
Now I'm going to go listen to some Creedence...
Now I'm going to go listen to some Creedence...
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Cat Stevens ~ Oh very young, what will you leave us this time?
Featuring, among others, a very young Bud Cort and Kristoffer Tabori *********************************************************************** Oh very young wh...
Hell ya!!! "Gonna run through the jungle".
And Cat Stevens in spite of everything.. his music is down.
http://youtu.be/qThUZ2lY4j8
And Cat Stevens in spite of everything.. his music is down.
http://youtu.be/qThUZ2lY4j8
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Interesting thought, sir. I've never really thought about music as not being an effective communication medium today. Peter Paul and Mary tried to bring some of their protest music back in the '02-'03 time frame, it didn't really take off. I attributed that to folks considering them outdated.
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I think looking over the music of the last 10-15 years I think a lot of it is very rooted in the past. If I remember correctly one of Alice in Chains songs is about a band member's father's (2 's in a row doesn't seem right) experience in Veitnam and after his return. SPC Charles Brown what do mean by relevance today?
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SPC Charles Brown
Songs about unrest around the world, the way things are going here at home, the disillusionment of the citizenry about the duration of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq..
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Well, late 70's/early 80's music and style are coming back. The proof is that the guardians of the galaxy awesome mix tape #1 was the first soundtrack to hit #1 on the billboards chart to have absolutely no new music on it.
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We needed another category: when was it ever not relevant? Never, of course.
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I think the Vietnam Era music is coming back. Probably because it was great music, not techno, rap crap.
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It is absolutely relevant to todays America. We have been at war for over a decade and counting and at every turn we are finding out that well maybe what we said was there is not there or maybe what we said we are fighting of ris not really what we are fighting for. The music of that area speaks to those issues and others that are just as troublesome now as they were back then.
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CPL C Brown I think I see what you are trying to say here. Perhaps you feel like history is repeating itself?
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