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Tech-savvy soldiers in Iraq are customizing their iPod playlists, whether going into battle or unwinding at their bases. Today, a music scholar and a soldier talk about what soldiers are listening to and what music means on the front lines. Also: Pacifika is a global pop trio that melds the sounds of Latin, moody electronica, '80 new wave and classic rock and which hails from an unlikely place – Vancouver. The group performs live in our studio. Finally: The story behind John Lennon's lyrics for "Give Peace a Chance."
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Soldiers' Songs
Every war has had its songs of battle, but in Iraq today they are coming from iPods and being played through communications systems of tanks. What are soldiers listening to and what does music mean on the front lines? We’ll be talking with NYU music professor Martin Daughtry, who is ...
Give Peace a Chance Lyrics up for sale
John Lennon's lyrics for Give Peace a Chance are to go under the hammer at an auction at Christie's this summer. The lyrics were handed to comedy writer Gail Renard, who was then 16, at Lennon and Yoko Ono's Montreal "bed-in" in 1969, along with other mementoes. She joins us ...
Pacifika Live
Pacifika is a global pop/latin-tinged trio based in an unlikely place – Vancouver -- and with an unlikely combination of people -- a Peruvian singer who is an ex-pop sensation, a Canadian guitarist both into new wave and classical, and a Barbados-raised producer who likes metal and Caribbean grooves. They ...
"Give Peace a Chance," Going Once...
John Lennon's lyrics for Give Peace a Chance are to go under the hammer at an auction at Christie's this summer. The lyrics were handed to comedy writer Gail Renard, who was then 16, at Lennon and Yoko Ono's Montreal 'bed-in' in ...
Left, Right, Left, Right ... "Play?"
Music is such a powerful means of expression that it’s only natural that military leaders learned early on how to use it. Want an army to march in formation? A drum will work like magic – in fact, many ancient cultures though music WAS magical, precisely because it somehow seemed ...