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Joseph M. Thompson

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How Country Music Became Patriotic

Country music boosters rebranded the genre and tied it to America's military mission as a way to build popularity.

by Joseph M. Thompson via Made By History on June 6, 2024
The "Good Old Rebel" at the Heart of the Radical Right

How a satirical song mocking uneducated Confederates came to be embraced as an anthem of white Southern pride.

by Joseph M. Thompson via Southern Cultures on January 21, 2021
Whitey on the Moon

Gil Scott-Heron's searing 1970 commentary on the nation's economic priorities.

by Joseph M. Thompson via Enviro-History on March 16, 2018

Cold War Country: How Nashville’s Music Row and the Pentagon Created the Sound of American Patriotism

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Soldiers sing at the end of the day in Vietnam, January 1968.

The Soundtrack to Vietnam War History Isn’t Quite Historically Accurate

Why rock overtook every other genre to define our understanding of America at war.

by David Suisman via HNN on December 3, 2024

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