Music by war
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Military bands and battlefield folk songs preserve two completely different versions of the same war
Two songs can share a melody and one is called a cover while the other becomes a national anthem
Soldiers' own field recordings are the most honest document of any war and almost nobody archives them
Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" did more for British morale in WWII than any government broadcast
Militaries commission pop songs now instead of march anthems because that is what recruits actually hear
The electric guitar only became a protest instrument once the Vietnam draft made it political
Anti-war anthems quietly turn into patriotic standards within about thirty years
Ukrainian musicians recording in basements during the invasion rewrote what war music is allowed to sound like
War is simultaneously the best and worst thing that ever happened to the recording industry
Protest songs and love songs run on identical chord progressions and nobody notices
"Where Have All the Flowers Gone" keeps getting rewritten by every generation that goes to war
"Lili Marleen" was claimed and sung by both sides of WWII in three languages
Occupation forces banned certain records and that is how whole genres went underground
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