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Louder Than Words: Rock, Power and Politics: War & Peace

War and Peace

Images (l to r): Gift of Andrea Jones and Kristian Crosby; Terry Stewart Collection; Lloyd Price Papers (2).

Associated Search Terms

Armed Forces
Benefit performances
Counterculture
Iraq War
Patriotic music
Peace
Political activity
Political ballads
Political songs
Protest movements
Protest songs
Radicalism

Riots
September 11
Social aspects
Social conditions
Soldiers
Student movements
Terrorist attacks
United Service Organizations
Vietnam War
War on terrorism
World War

Articles

These articles are available via the database Rock's Back Pages.

Google Books

Books

Give Peace a Chance: Music and the Struggle for Peace by Marianne Philbin, Yōko Ono, Peace Museum (Chicago, Ill.)
Call Number: ML141.C5 P43 1983
Music of the World War II Era by William H. Young; Nancy K. Young
Call Number: ML3477 .Y66 2008
Over Here, over There by Maxene Andrews; Bill Gilbert
Call Number: ML421.A537 A53 1993
The Politics of Post-9/11 Music by Joseph P. Fisher (Editor); Brian Flota
Call Number: ML3918.P67 .P655 2011
Put Your Bodies upon the Wheels by Kenneth J. Heineman
Call Number: LA229 .H45 2001
Riot on Sunset Strip by Domenic Priore; Arthur Lee (Foreword by)
Call Number: ML3534.3 .P756 2007
Sounds of the Borderland by Catherine Baker
Call Number: ML3917.C7 B35 2010
Sound Targets by Jonathan Pieslak
Call Number: ML3477 .P54 2009

Periodicals

Scores

The war is over / Phil Ochs

YouTube Videos

Archival Resources

"Alice's Restaurant"
Armed Forces Radio
Concert for New York City
Sing Out! Records The Sing Out! Records document folk music and its related genres throughout the decades of the 1940s to the present. The photograph and subject files in this collection were originally a part of the Sing Out! Resource Center, created in the 1980s to document the diverse nature and history of folk music in order to better serve the folk community. Because Sing Out's mission is focused not on folk music but the "people's music," the collection documents a wide range of musical genres and styles, including blues, folk, alternative, country, rock, and world music; as well as festivals and organizations related to the creation, performance, and dissemination of the music. The collection also documents music as it serves "the common cause of humanity," and therefore, contains information and imagery related to a variety of social and political issues, including the civil and women’s rights movements, labor rights, economic and social justice, freedom of assembly, and the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements. The collection is particularly rich in its documentation of women and minorities in music. In addition to the archival materials in the collection, a large number of periodicals, books, and LPs were added to the library’s research collections.
Toronto Peace Festival
Vietnam

Audio

America: a Tribute to Heroes
Call Number: CD VAR AMER-A 2001
Next Stop Is Vietnam: the War on Record, 1961-2008
Call Number: BOX VAR NEXT-ST 2010

Video

1968 with Tom Brokaw
Call Number: DVD VAR NINETE 2008
The Love We Make
Call Number: DVD MCCA LOVE 2011

Theses/Dissertations

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