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My music, my war : the listening habits of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan / Lisa Gilman.

Title
My music, my war : the listening habits of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan / Lisa Gilman.
Author
Gilman, Lisa, 1969-
Publication
Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2016]

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xvi, 226 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
In the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, recent technological developments in music listening enabled troops to carry with them vast amounts of music and easily acquire new music, for themselves and to share with their fellow troops as well as friends and loved ones far away. This ethnographic study examines U.S. troops' musical-listening habits during and after war, and the accompanying fear, domination, violence, isolation, pain, and loss that troops experienced. My Music, My War is a moving ethnographic account of what war was like for those most intimately involved. It shows how individuals survive in the messy webs of conflicting thoughts and emotions that are intricately part of the moment-to-moment and day-to-day phenomenon of war, and the pervasive memories in its aftermath. It gives fresh insight into musical listening as it relates to social dynamics, gender, community formation, memory, trauma, and politics. --Publisher description.
Series Statement
Music culture
Uniform Title
  • Project Muse UPCC books
  • Music/culture
Subject
  • Afghan War (2001-)
  • Iraq War (2003-2011)
  • 2003 - 2011
  • Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Music and the war
  • Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Music and the war
  • Armed Forces > Attitudes
  • Music and war
  • United States > Attitudes. > Iraq
  • United States > Attitudes. > Afghanistan
  • Afghanistan
  • Iraq
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Setting the scene -- Musicking at work and leisure -- Music as a sound track of war -- Music, gender, and the paradox of masculinity -- "Music doesn't judge": managing feelings at war -- Coming home -- Music and political transformation -- As time goes by.
ISBN
  • 9780819575999
  • 0819575992
  • 9780819576002
  • 081957600X
LCCN
^^2015022965
OCLC
912872529
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library