‘1619,’ Episode 3: The Birth of American Music

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🗓️ 7 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Today on “The Daily,” we present Episode 3 of “1619,” a New York Times audio series hosted by Nikole Hannah-Jones. You can find more information about it at nytimes.com/1619podcast. Black music, forged in captivity, became the sound of complete artistic freedom. It also became the sound of America. Guest: Wesley Morris, a critic-at-large for The New York Times. This episode contains explicit language. Background reading: “The proliferation of black music across the planet — the proliferation, in so many senses, of being black — constitutes a magnificent joke on American racism,” Wesley Morris writes.The “1619” audio series is part of The 1619 Project, a major initiative from The Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. Read more from the project here.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro, today on The Daily.
0:13.5	From The New York Times Magazine, I'm Nicole Hannah Jones. This is 1619.
0:18.6	This week, Wesley Morris, on the Birth of American Music.
0:48.6	Oh, my God.
0:57.9	So, last fall, I am at my friend's house. We are making dinner. I'm shopping vegetables.
1:07.2	And I asked my friend, Brett, who was cooking with me. Can you put on some music?
1:12.5	And he said, what do you want to listen to? And I said, have you ever heard of Yadrock?
1:18.2	And he said, what? I said, Yadrock, have you ever heard of this? And he goes, no, I have not.
1:26.0	So, he finds the Yadrock Station in Pandora, which I don't know why or how he's
1:32.8	still a Pandora guy. With all due respect to Pandora, he is one. And he finds the Yadrock Station.
1:41.1	At some point, Brett has to go run an errand. I think I might have sent him on one. I don't remember.
1:45.4	But he's gone. So, I'm alone, just me with the vegetables. And Yadrock.
1:58.4	It gives me plenty of time to really think about the songs I'm hearing.
2:08.2	We're talking about music made between the years of, I don't know, I would say like
2:12.4	1975 to about 1983. Things like...
2:22.4	Aces how long...
2:28.9	Seals and croft doing summer breeze...
2:34.0	I'm hearing things like...
2:35.2	I don't wait, still away.
2:40.8	Still away by Robbie D'Empri.
2:47.0	And the Dooby Brothers, what a full believes.
2:49.5	He came from somewhere back in a long ago.
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