What was the impact of the protest music industry on the Anti-US Involvement Vietnam War protest movement?
From one who was there, it was minimal. Instead, it was more the other way around….protest music reflected popular sentiment among the American youths’ peace/anti-war movement, not influenced it. Country Joe didn’t convince draft dodgers to burn their cards and run to Canada; he sang about them doing that. And John Fogarty and CCR didn’t convince Congress and others to to allow for draft deferrals due to colletge, allowing America’s “fortunate sons” to remain at home while to lower classes went to the front lines; instead they sang about the economic disparity of the front line soldiers. The music simply gave yet another dimension to a voice of the the anti-war movement.
