The 'Shock Therapy' of the Sixties

One of the great historical events to produce a lot of musical response around the question of war was obviously the vitnam war. There's a few famous songs which come out of the protest and folk movement of the sixties. I think, by far the most sophisticated actly of bob dillon's protest songs is his song, with god on our side. Lyrically, it's the only one that's interesting really, because it does offer a real critique of the relationship between american national self identity and imperialism and colonialism. And contemporary militari and civil war toroes soon laid away, and the names of the heroes as made to memorize with guns. It wasn't cameron