Abstract

In America, critics and proponents of military policy use popular musical forms. The "folk revival" of the 1950s and early '60s drew on antagonism to the Cold War and responded to fears of nuclear holocaust. Examples include Pete Seeger's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," Barry McQuire's "Eve of Destruction," and Bob Dylan's "Talkin' World War Three Blues." The Vietnam era wedded rock music to anti-war sentiments but with occasional expressions of popular patriotic support, as in the "Ballad of the Green Berets" by Sgt. Barry Sadler and Robin Moore.