| 词条 | Napalm Sticks to Kids |
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"Napalm Sticks to Kids" is a rhythmic and rhyming performance that has seen life as both a published song and an informal military cadence. Song{{infobox song| type = song | artist = Covered Wagon Musicians | album = We Say No to Your War! | released = {{start date|1972}} | length = {{duration|m=4|s=18}} | label = Paredon Records }} "Napalm Sticks to Kids" is a 1972 song about the Vietnam War by Covered Wagon Musicians,[1] a musical ensemble of active-duty military personnel stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base. "Napalm" is the twelfth song (sixth on the B-side) from Covered Wagon Musicians' album We Say No to Your War!; released by Paredon Records, the song is 4:18 long.[2] History Today called the song "an unflinching picture of the war" in which {{convert|388000|lt}} of Napalm B were dropped on Indochina between 1963–1973.[1] CadenceCarol Burke, a professor at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) wrote about "Napalm Sticks to Kids" in the context of military cadences. Since the mid-19th century, cadences have been for improving morale, unit cohesion, and the weight of military labor. Burke observed that "offensiveness drives cadences", noting examples of insubordination, sexual objectification of women, and the celebration of collateral damage; General William Westmoreland explained these topics: "Gallows humor is, after all, merely a defense mechanism for men engaged in perilous and distasteful duties." The "Napalm Sticks to Kids" cadence has been taught at training to all branches of the United States Armed Forces. Its verses delight in the application of superior US technology that rarely if ever actually hits the enemy; "the [singer] fiendishly narrates in first person one brutal scene after another: barbecued babies, burned orphans, and decapitated peasants in an almost cartoonlike litany." Burke also interpreted the call-and-response work song as a rebuke against anti-war protesters back home in an effort to self-transform the servicemember from the demonized "baby-killer" to the haunted and broken veteran. "Napalm Sticks to Kids" was employed at the USNA from early 1970s until the late 1980s when efforts were made to prohibit its singing. References1. ^1 2 {{cite magazine |last1=Brummer |first1=Justin |date=2018-09-25 |title=The Vietnam War: A History in Song |url=https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/vietnam-war-history-song |dead-url=no |magazine=History Today |language=en |issn=0018-2753 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190221194655/https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/vietnam-war-history-song |archive-date=2019-02-21 |access-date=2019-02-21 |quote=The ‘First Television War’ was also documented in over 5,000 songs. From protest to patriotism, popular music reveals the complexity of America’s two-decade long experience struggling against communism in Vietnam.}} [1][2]2. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://folkways.si.edu/covered-wagon-musicians/we-say-no-to-your-war/american-folk-struggle-protest/music/album/smithsonian |title=We Say No to Your War! {{pipe}} Smithsonian Folkways Recordings |department=Smithsonian Folkways |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |location=Washington, D.C. |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023141629/https://folkways.si.edu/covered-wagon-musicians/we-say-no-to-your-war/american-folk-struggle-protest/music/album/smithsonian |archive-date=2018-10-23 |dead-url=no |access-date=2019-02-21}} }} 3 : 1972 songs|American songs|songs of the Vietnam War |
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