In Vietnam today, patriotic odes to the glory of the revolution may still be heard at Communist Party meetings, but millions of ordinary Vietnamese opt for the modern pop songs being belted out on CDs ...
The Vietnam War changed the music we listen to. Elvis put aside his “Blue Suede Shoes” to sing “If I Can Dream”. John Lennon asked us to “Imagine” and the Plastic Ono Band urged us to “Give Peace a ...
I've never seen anything like Next Stop Is Vietnam, as much a very long documentary in sound as it is a comprehensive collection of songs. From the very first arrival of the American "advisers," as ...
"It became obvious that the enemy was the very people in these villages around us," W.D. Ehrhart told filmmaker David Hoffman in 1990. "They were the enemy, or at least, the enemy was out there ...