Music and History

Americans are identified as rebellious, and for the last 250 years, Americans and their
government have maintained this status quo. A part of Americans' national identity is to react
against something. The American nature of being rebellious was dominant during the 20 years of
the Vietnam war, a period of political unrest and cultural rebirth in Vietnam. The weight of the
turmoil was carried by social and political movements in Vietnam, which depended on artistic
ways of expression (The Vietnam War Divided the Country, But Music United The Troops). In
the state of death, confusion, and unending war, America, a counterculture, brought some light
by creating music that would last for a lifetime. America got involved in the Vietnamese war to
prove its strength in an international arena, where half a million Americans were fighting in
Vietnam. The reason for fighting in Vietnam was not properly defined as their political
background was very unstable at the time; some argued that the cause of the war was to fight for
the country's democracy and remove Chinese influence over the nation, others said the war was
just a fight with no clear end goal, but most of the old generation firmly believed that the war
was necessary, during the war period country music artists like Merle Haggard fully gave their
support to the government.

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Some of the best pop music in the 20th century were produced during this era of the
Vietnam war, and apart from music being used for protesting, it was also used by the soldiers
fighting on the battlefield. According to Doug Bradley, technology played a major part in getting
the music to the battlefield, starting from radios, portable recorders, and live bands where
soldiers had more access to music than any other person. The access to music raised the soldier's
morale, and some of the soundtracks were shared from America, and they could listen to music
jointly, and it had a lot of political power in it. Music during the Vietnam war played a major
role in uniting those who were on the battlefield with those who were not taking part in the war;
music created a common ground for all as the music produced during the period was based on
the wars, so no one was separated from the war. Nowadays you find that the war is being
experienced only by the people taking part in it. Music helped the soldiers make sense of
traumatizing and confusing experiences as the songs we're talking directly to the war to show
that everyone was concerned about the war. The songs the soldiers were listening to were the
same ones their friends and family were listening to back in the united states, only that the
soldiers interpreted the songs differently from those who were not taking part in the war. Even
after the war ended, decades later, the music produced during the war was making a lot of sense.
The songs and narratives that we have to get out of this place were composed of had an
individual soundtrack of the Vietnam war; these songs were put together to explain what music
meant at that time and what it means now to the young ladies and men who took their country's
burden during a tragic period (Why the Vietnam War Produced Such Iconic Music). The young
women and men belonged to a generation that was exclusively defined by music. Some of them
include Elvis, the Beatles, and Dylan, Aretha, and James's brown. Those who took part in the
Vietnam war shaped their music in a way that satisfied their needs, and this is a habit they

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carried on with even after returning to the united states of America. According to Michael
Kramer, music produced in the 1960s and 1970's enhanced the younger generations with
knowledge of thinking, feeling, discussing, and dancing out democratic togetherness and
liberation. Songs and styles meant different things to different groups of people. The music used
in the Vietnam war served as a manifestation of the current American technological power
because the music was always distributed through a technological channel. The music made a
tragic year in Vietnam less lonely and more manageable for the soldiers.
As the war changed, music changed, and individual interpretation of music changed over
time, the birth of Hip-hop was one of the changes that transpired in the music industry. Since its
birth, hip-hop has been used for freedom of expression. Hip-hop has been used to express pain
and give hope, and it is always aiming to pass the message. For instance, fight the power is a
well-known hip-hop track that explains the police brutality in