Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Pop culture expert Rapping quoted on Vietnam-era music

By Arthur Page

Release Date: May 29, 2005 This content is archived.

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An article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the link Vietnam veterans have to the music of that era quotes Elayne Rapping, who says that personalizing songs such as "We've Got to Get Out of This Place," which is considered an anthem of the Vietnam era, is not unusual because people make their own meanings out of songs that may have been intended to mean something else. Go to article.