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Greedence Clearwater Revival Songs Analysis

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Music As Protest Music has been used throughout many wars and conflicts as a way to protest and share the beliefs of people. I choose Creedence Clearwater Revivals song “Fortunate Son”, because this song spoke to the masses during the Vietnam Conflict taking place on the other side of the world. Creedence Clearwater Revival created a song that shared what the many people believed in the United States and helped get their voices heard. “Fortunate Son” shared the true story about majority of the middle and lower class Americans feelings. Vietnam had just gone through a war through 1954 to push France their colonial ruler out. After successfully defeating the French the Vietnamese and French signed the Geneva Peace Accords, this treaty allowed the …show more content…

The band almost fell apart as they were all in college or had a career already but they decided to give it one more go, which ended up making them very successful in the end. After the Beatles broke up Creedence Clearwater Revival “became the most successful band and the biggest singles act in the world, despite never landing a #1 single” (Creedence-Online “CCR History”). Creedence performed at Woodstock but performed late at night so very few people were up to watch. Creedence Clearwater Revival recorded “Fortunate Son” because they needed an outlet for their beliefs. Creedence Clearwater Revival created many songs to help get their messages out and were part of the popular movement so it is no surprise that they were creating such songs that relied anti-war messages like “Fortunate Son”. Overall, Creedence Clearwater Revival became a worldwide band yet almost failed along the process and this hardship allowed them to put together a song like “Fortunate

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