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Review | Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War

Submitted by Matthew Sumera on May 9, 2016 - 8:00am

Sound Targets: American Soldiers and Music in the Iraq War. By Jonathan Pieslak. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. [240 pp. ISBN: 978-0-253-22087-5. Paperback: $21.95; EBook $18.65].

Reviewed by Matthew Sumera / University of Minnesota

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