Next Stop is Vietnam: The War on Record

Craig Werner and Doug Bradley place the iconic music of the 1960s and early 1970s at the heart of the U. S. experience in Vietnam. Their presentation explores why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the World back home, and how music has helped them cope with the complexities of an unpopular war that they had to fight. Their talk also demonstrates that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans—black and white, Latino and Native American; men and women; officers and “grunts.”