The relationship between music and war was not an invention of the 1960s. So what made Vietnam's music special? But, while the role of music in stateside protest of that era is well-known — with ...

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's new PBS documentary series The Vietnam War premieres at 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17 on WOSU-TV. I got to thinking about some of the music from that era relating to the conflict ...

These hit songs from the 1960s definitely swayed you in certain directions when your music taste was forming as a child.

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...

The 1960s were built on the classic rock songs that enjoyed near-constant radio airplay and inclusion in film and television. Creedence Clearwater Revival’s rock ‘n’ roll depicted the atmosphere of ...

NEW YORK — Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, Judy Collins can never forget one in Washington, D.C., where she stood before thousands and sang Bob Dylan's ...

On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended with the conquest of Saigon by North Vietnamese troops. But the US, which had been involved in the bloody proxy Cold War conflict for more than a decade, had ...

An aerial view of the massive crowds that crowded around the stage at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1969. (Marty Lederhandler/AP) (The Conversation is an independent ...

During the 1960s, the counterculture simply became culture: the sexual revolution, psychedelic drugs, hating the Vietnam War, Dennis Hopper. And it’s impossible to bodypaint this decade’s popular ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Out of the many Vietnam War ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty performs in 2007 in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of ...