The Fort Atkinson Club has announced that music defining the Vietnam War will round out its Fall 2021 FACTalks.
The club announced in a recent release that Doug Bradley will present “We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War,” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, in the Fort Atkinson Club’s theater at 215 S. Water St., East.
The program is free and open to the public.
Bradley is a distinguished lecturer emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters & Science Integrated Liberal Studies.
“We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War” places popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. The presentation explores how and why U.S. troops turned to music as a way of connecting to each other and the world back home and of coping with the complexities of the war they had been sent to fight, according to the release.
It also demonstrates that music was important for every group of Vietnam veterans — black and white, Latino and Native American; men and women; officers and “grunts” — whose personal reflections drive the book’s narrative, the release continued.
For questions on FACTalks or more information about the Fort Atkinson Club community center, call (920) 568-1720.
Music during the Vietnam War era is depicted with this representation shared by the Fort Atkinson Club. The club’s Fall 2021 FACTalk series will complete with the presentation of “We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War,” to be held Oct. 27.
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