[ecrea] Sound Targets

> 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.
>
> INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
> Aug 2009 216pp £13.99 HB: 9780253220875
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