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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 59 sec.) ; 307610902 bytes |
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In a truly unimaginable act of police brutality, national guardsmen shot and killed four college students in an anti-war protest on the Kent State campus in Ohio in 1970. Just weeks later, Neil Young channelled his rage into a haunting song called Ohio, which was released and played on the radio almost immediately. Perhaps no other era in American history saw such an intense outpouring of politically driven popular music as the years around the Vietnam War. Songs from Buffalo Springfield, Phil Ochs, and Edwin Starr were explicit in their anti-war messaging while also providing a soundtrack for soldiers in the battlefield. These artists were exercising their fundamental American right to protest government actions, and in a newly ascendant age of protest, it is worth exploring the vital role that music can play in society |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2017-09-17 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Documentary television programs.
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Musicians -- Psychology.
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Popular music.
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Protest movements.
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Soundtracks.
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United States.
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Streaming video
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