@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt130jjbg.17, ISBN = {9780813123080}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt130jjbg.17}, abstract = {War, in all its horrific inhumanity, intrudes all too frequently into the daily lives of hundreds of millions. Thus it comes as no surprise that country music, with its propensity to comment on the trials and triumphs of everyday life, has a considerable number of songs devoted to the topic of war. Military conflicts and the events surrounding them also occupy considerable space within the kindergarten through twelfth-grade curriculum, particularly in the subject of social studies, as well as in literature. All too often, however, textbook descriptions of military conflict fail to convey the emotional, or affective, component of war}, booktitle = {Country Music Goes to War}, edition = {1}, pages = {227--247}, publisher = {University Press of Kentucky}, title = {Country Music: A Teaching Tool for Dealing with War}, year = {2005} }