SOUNDS
INSTRUMENT OF WAR
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1:
A Great and Secret Power
Chapter 2:
Music, Race, Empire
Chapter 3:
Music and Guns Go Hand in Hand
Chapter 4:
The Best-Entertained Soldier in the World
Chapter 5:
The Powers of Song
Chapter 6:
Demythologizing the Rock-and-Roll War
Chapter 7:
Shoot to Thrill
Coda
Seven Elegies
INSTRUMENT OF WAR
Coda
The book’s coda discusses several pieces of music reacting to, and commenting on, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.