Agapito zuniga biography of george michael
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JTMH Volume 24 | The Vietnam War Song Project
Texas has been one of the dominant influences in the development of country music alongside Nashville, from Western swing pioneer Bob Wills to prominent figures from the 1970s outlaw country movement such as Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson hailing from the Lone Star State.
Most Texas country war songs during the core years of 1964 to 1973 presented patriotic content. While anti-war songs in the contemporary folk and rock scene have received much attention in the media and in scholarly works, over 700 pro-war, patriotic, and anti-protest songs were released in the US across all genres, primarily in the early stages of the conflict. Opinion polls for most of the war showed vast support for presidential policy, especially across the Midwest and South, where country music dominated.8 However, from the late 1960s, with an increasing death toll, high economic cost, and reports of military failures (such as the 1968 Tet Offensive), mass public opinion started to turn against the war. As it became less unpatriotic to publicly criticize the war, a degree of anti-war sentiment started to appear in country songs.9
Patriotic, anti-communist, pro-soldier perspective: “It’s for God and country and you, Mom”
Honky-tonk pioneer Ern
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“It seems like yesterday that I was with Agapito, not a day goes by that I don’t pray and think of him. They took away a piece of me on that day when they killed him. I still can’t believe that he’s not here,” said Ernestol, who is t
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