music and soldiers in Iraq
Feb. 19th, 2005 07:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/19/nyregion/19band.html
The flute went to war. So did the oboe, the clarinet, the bass, the French horn, the euphonium and a good number of the saxophones.
The 199th Army Band has had to cut back on its repertory these days. After all, it is not easy playing Sousa when half your woodwinds and a quarter of your brass are in Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/arts/music/20dave.html
If rock 'n' roll, the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Creedence Clearwater Revival, was the music of American service members in Vietnam, rap may become the defining pulse for the war in Iraq. It has emerged as a rare realm where soldiers and marines, hardly known for talking about their feelings, are voicing the full range of their emotions and reactions to war. They rap about their resentment of the military hierarchy. But they also rap about their pride, their invincibility, their fallen brothers, their disdain for the enemy and their determination to succeed.
The flute went to war. So did the oboe, the clarinet, the bass, the French horn, the euphonium and a good number of the saxophones.
The 199th Army Band has had to cut back on its repertory these days. After all, it is not easy playing Sousa when half your woodwinds and a quarter of your brass are in Iraq.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/arts/music/20dave.html
If rock 'n' roll, the sounds of Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane and Creedence Clearwater Revival, was the music of American service members in Vietnam, rap may become the defining pulse for the war in Iraq. It has emerged as a rare realm where soldiers and marines, hardly known for talking about their feelings, are voicing the full range of their emotions and reactions to war. They rap about their resentment of the military hierarchy. But they also rap about their pride, their invincibility, their fallen brothers, their disdain for the enemy and their determination to succeed.
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Date: 2005-02-20 03:30 am (UTC)When i was in the military, rap was not that influental , but there were small groups of people who would rap , usually imitating groups of the day, but rarely you would hear things about the people and the military. Never within earshot of the people sung about, mind you. I made a comparision of that to some of the older blue songs that are normally attributed to sailors. ( Frigging in the rigging , for example, where the captain, his wife, and daughter are made fun of ).