Next Stop is Vietnam: The War on Record, 1961-2008

摘要

American musicologist Hugo A. Keesing has compiled a 13-CD collection of more than 300 songs of, by and about the Vietnam War and the soldiers who fought in it. Leavened with excerpts from historic speeches and broadcasts- Eisenhower on the 'military-industrial complex', Johnson requesting the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, the first draft lottery draw, and many others- the anthology, while selective, offers a comprehensive overview of the war, the war at home and the legacy of both as reflected in popular culture. A fourteenth CD-ROM includes all the song lyrics, and a highly pictorial,