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 ...
Sixty-two years ago today, Bob Dylan stepped into a studio in New York to record one of the most timeless songs of the era.
Legendary Vietnamese composer Lu Nhat Vu, known for iconic songs like "The Southern Land Song" and "Saigon Girl Carrying Ammunition," has passed away at the age of 87 in Ho Chi Minh City. Composer Lu ...
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 ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Gregory Ganz liked "I’m your Captain (Closer to Home)"(1970), which was written ...
The scientific conference titled Folk Culture and Folk Arts of Vietnam after the Reunification of the Country (1975-2025) was organized by the Association of Vietnamese Folklorists. It was ...
Folk music as a genre is known for its incredible protest songs. Let’s take a quick look at four of the most iconic folk protest songs ever written! But, it is worth noting that this list is far from ...
As an American poet, John Balaban started his writer’s journey in the public library of his youth — a bookworm child surviving a Philadelphia neighborhood so rough the local boys threw ice balls at ...
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 ...