Additional Text "War" By Edwin Starr

           "War" - Edwin Starr      

           If you just got down to the funky fresh rhythms of Edwin Starr’s “War,” you must have noticed the predominant anti-war message it sends. Similarly, David Dudley uses the magical powers of song to get the attention of his audience. While their messages differ entirely, Starr and Dudley’s approaches combine the growing music industry of the 1960’s, with the emerging civil rights movement, in order for them each to become major influences at the time. The tempo of Starr’s song however, is very up beat and catchy, while Dudley’s has a much slower tempo and a more serious tone. These varying tones and tempos mimic the attitudes of the hippy, pot smoking, and (most importantly) young anti-war movement, with the up tight, conservative, and older pro-war movement. The way each of these songs is performed reveals the two very distinct cultures that emerged in the 1960’s and the reasons for such aggressive protests.

            Also if you haven’t seen the 1 minute and 30 second clip of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker singing "War" that the directors of Rush Hour threw into the movie to make the audience forget just how bad of an actor Jackie Chan is, here is the scene. 

           -Sam Jacobson