Classic cinema and 1960s music go hand in hand, and we believe these are the best three examples of the artistic partnership.

The relationship between music and war was not an invention of the 1960s. So what made Vietnam's music special? But, while the role of music in stateside protest of that era is well-known — with ...

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's new PBS documentary series The Vietnam War premieres at 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 17 on WOSU-TV. I got to thinking about some of the music from that era relating to the conflict ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Phil Ochs, “What Are You Fighting For” (1963). Ochs wrote numerous protest songs ...

On April 30, 1975, the Vietnam War ended with the conquest of Saigon by North Vietnamese troops. But the US, which had been involved in the bloody proxy Cold War conflict for more than a decade, had ...

NEW YORK — Out of the many Vietnam War protests she performed at in the 1960s and 1970s, Judy Collins can never forget one in Washington, D.C., where she stood before thousands and sang Bob Dylan's ...

An aerial view of the massive crowds that crowded around the stage at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1969. (Marty Lederhandler/AP) (The Conversation is an independent ...

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...

During the 1960s, the counterculture simply became culture: the sexual revolution, psychedelic drugs, hating the Vietnam War, Dennis Hopper. And it’s impossible to bodypaint this decade’s popular ...

Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty performs in 2007 in Los Angeles. (Mark J. Terrill/AP) Editor’s note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of ...