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Goodnight Saigon. " Goodnight Saigon " is a song written by Billy Joel, originally appearing on his 1982 album The Nylon Curtain, about the Vietnam War. It depicts the situation and attitude of United States Marines beginning with their military training on Parris Island and then into different aspects of Vietnam combat.
The My Lai massacre ( / miː laɪ / mee ly; Vietnamese: Thảm sát Mỹ Lai [tʰâːm ʂǎːt mǐˀ lāːj] ⓘ) was a war crime committed by the United States Army on 16 March 1968, involving the mass murder of unarmed civilians in Sơn Mỹ village, Quảng Ngãi province, South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. [1] At least 347 and up to 504 ...
Tiếng gọi thanh niên, or Thanh niên hành khúc ( Saigon: [tʰan niəŋ hân xúk], "March of the Youths"), and originally the March of the Students ( Vietnamese: Sinh Viên Hành Khúc, French: La Marche des Étudiants ), is a famous song of the musician Lưu Hữu Phước . Its lyrics were modified to make the anthem of State of ...
The protest music that came out of the Vietnam War era was stimulated by the unfairness of the draft, the loss of American lives in Vietnam, and the unsupported expansion of war. The Vietnam War era (1955–1975) was a time of great controversy for the American public. Desperate to stop the spread of communism in South-East Asia, the United ...
Yellow music. Yellow music (Nhạc vàng) in Vietnam has two meanings. The first meaning is the lyrical and romantic music from pre-war, post-development in southern Vietnam in the period 1954s-1975s and later overseas as well as in the country after Đổi Mới, influenced by music of South Vietnam 1975s.
The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and a major conflict of the Cold War. While the war was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam, the north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other ...
However, of over 5,000 Vietnam War-related songs identified to date, many took a patriotic, pro-government, or pro-soldier perspective. The two most notable genres involved in this protest were Rock and Roll and Folk music. While composers created pieces affronting the war, they were not limited to their music.
Phạm Duy (1921-2013), most prolific songwriter of Vietnam. With a musical career that spanned more than 70 years through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than 1000 songs to his credit. The Western-influenced popular music of Vietnam ( Tân nhạc Việt Nam, "New music of Vietnam") developed from the ...