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Wed Aug 26 16:18:37 GMT 2009



Sound Targets
American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War
By John Pieslak, CUNY

"Sound Targets reveals just how pervasively popular music has shaped contemporary U.S. military culture. . . . This thoughtful and provocative study will certainly attract a wide audience concerned with music's roles in the time of war." ­W. Anthony Sheppard, author of Revealing Masks: Exotic Influences and Ritualized Performance in Modernist Music Theater

Listen to author John Pieslak talking about the role of music in the Iraq War on BBC Radio 4: <http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/newsid_8158000/8158772.stm>http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/listen_again/newsid_8158000/8158772.stm

Though a part of American soldiers' lives since the Revolutionary War, by World War II music could be broadcast to the front. Today it accompanies soldiers from the recruiting office to the battlefield. For this book, Jonathan Pieslak interviewed returning veterans to learn about the place of music in the Iraq War and in contemporary American military culture in general. Pieslak describes how American soldiers hear, share, use, and produce music both on and off duty. He studies the role of music from recruitment campaigns and basic training to its use "in country" before and during missions. Pieslak explores themes of power, chaos, violence, and survival in the metal and hip-hop music so popular among the troops, and offers insight into the daily lives of American soldiers in the Middle East.

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