Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Les. 8: Using Rock as Primary Source Material

I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag' by Country Joe McDonald has been played with great success in classrooms for over twenty years. While it conveys literary elements such as theme, point of view, and irony, it also functions as an entertaining primary source illustrating the part angry, part irreverent anti-war sentiments of the counter-culture in the late 1960s.