Who'll Stop the Rain
Title | Who'll Stop the Rain PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Bradley |
Publisher | Warriors Publishing Group |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 2020-03-10 |
Genre | History |
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In their 2015 award-winning book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner placed popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. Over the next two years, they made more than 100 presentations coast-to-coast, witnessing honest, respectful exchanges among audience members. That journey prompted Bradley to write Who'll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America and to further explore how the music of the era, shared by those who served and those who stayed, helped create safe, nonjudgmental environments for listening, sharing, and understanding. Those insights, and others, can help redefine America's public memory of Vietnam, one that invites a broader public understanding, sometimes written physically into the landscape via monuments, about what we revere and what we regret about who we are and what Vietnam did to us. A chorus of voices in Who'll Stop the Rain–famous and anonymous, female and male, veteran and non-veteran, American and Vietnamese–suggests new possibilities for understanding the legacy of Vietnam and, ultimately, for bringing the men and women who served their country in that controversial war home for good.
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Title | We Gotta Get Out of This Place PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Bradley |
Publisher | UMass + ORM |
Total Pages | 315 |
Release | 2016-01-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 161376426X |
“The diversity of voices and songs reminds us that the home front and the battlefront are always connected and that music and war are deeply intertwined.” —Heather Marie Stur, author of 21 Days to Baghdad For a Kentucky rifleman who spent his tour trudging through Vietnam’s Central Highlands, it was Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’.” For a black marine distraught over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., it was Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools.” And for countless other Vietnam vets, it was “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ to Die” or the song that gives this book its title. In We Gotta Get Out of This Place, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner place popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. They explore how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight. They also demonstrate that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans—black and white, Latino and Native American, men and women, officers and “grunts”—whose personal reflections drive the book’s narrative. Many of the voices are those of ordinary soldiers, airmen, seamen, and marines. But there are also “solo” pieces by veterans whose writings have shaped our understanding of the war—Karl Marlantes, Alfredo Vea, Yusef Komunyakaa, Bill Ehrhart, Arthur Flowers—as well as songwriters and performers whose music influenced soldiers’ lives, including Eric Burdon, James Brown, Bruce Springsteen, Country Joe McDonald, and John Fogerty. Together their testimony taps into memories—individual and cultural—that capture a central if often overlooked component of the American war in Vietnam.
Dog Soldiers
Title | Dog Soldiers PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Stone |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 1997-04-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0547524161 |
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers—and the price of survival was dangerously high.
Shaolin Cowboy: Who'll Stop the Reign?
Title | Shaolin Cowboy: Who'll Stop the Reign? PDF eBook |
Author | Geof Darrow |
Publisher | Dark Horse Comics |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 2021-06-15 |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | 1506722040 |
Who doesn't like Surf and Turf? Well, what do you do when Surf and Turf doesn't like YOU????????? The Eisner Award-losing and winning, drawing-room talkfest The Shaolin Cowboy returns and will try to answer those questions as the titular hero of the series finds that his road to hell is paved not with good intentions but old nemeses hellbent on bloody revenge ... AGAIN!!!! He fought an army of the shambling dead, but can the Shaolin Cowboy survive a sinister desert town filled with guns, prostitutes, and white supremacists, all run by a crustaceous mafia? Collects Shaolin Cowboy: Who'll Stop the Reign #1-4.
Bad Moon Rising
Title | Bad Moon Rising PDF eBook |
Author | Hank Bordowitz |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1569769842 |
Rightly called the saddest story in rock 'n' roll history, this Creedence biography--newly updated with stories from band members, producers, business associates, close friends, and families--recounts the tragic and triumphant tale of one of America's most beloved bands. Hailed as the great American rock band from 1968 to 1971, Creedence Clearwater Revival captured the imaginations of a generation with classic hits like "Proud Mary," "Down on the Corner," "Green River," "Born on the Bayou," and "Who'll Stop the Rain." Mounting tensions among bandmates over vibrant guitarist and lead vocalist John Fogerty's creative control led to the band's demise. Tracing the lives of four musicians who redefined an American roots-rock sound with unequaled passion and power, this music biography exposes the bitter end and abandoned talent of a band left crippled by debt and dissension.
Creedence Clearwater Revival (Songbook)
Title | Creedence Clearwater Revival (Songbook) PDF eBook |
Author | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Total Pages | 115 |
Release | 2011-06-01 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 145843768X |
(Guitar Chord Songbook). Here's all you need to play and sing 34 CCR classics! Includes: Bad Moon Rising * Born on the Bayou * Down on the Corner * Fortunate Son * Good Golly Miss Molly * Have You Ever Seen the Rain? * Hey, Tonight * I Heard It Through the Grapevine * Lookin' Out My Back Door * Proud Mary * Susie-Q * Travelin' Band * Up Around the Bend * Who'll Stop the Rain * and more!
Who'll Stop the Rain
Title | Who'll Stop the Rain PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Rascoe |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 1987 |
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