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Ongoing History of New Music

Connections

Ongoing History of New Music

Curiouscast

Music History, History, Music, Music Interviews, Music Commentary

4.8604 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Back in the late 70s, the BBC debuted a science education show called “Connections”...the host was James Burke, an affable, professorish guy, usually dressed in a beige polyester leisure suit who gave the term “interdisciplinary” a whole new meaning... His thing was to take disparate developments in science and technology and show how they were actually interconnected in ways that led to our modern world...nothing, he demonstrated, existed in isolation over the long term... One show connected the invention of the cannon to the first movie project in the late 1800s...there were obviously a lot of steps in between, but Burke was able to draw a very clear line...another demonstrated the few degrees of separating between drinking gin and tonics to astronomers discovering the true size of the universe... “Connections” remains one of my all-time favourite TV shows...and to be honest, more than a little of this program is inspired by the way James Burke was able to tie things together... I’ve always wanted to create a proper “connections”-type show, but it’s been hard because so much knowledge and research and analysis and synthesis is required...and if I’m honest, what you’re about to hear has taken years to pull together...I hope I can do things justice... Here is my attempt to create some connections between rock music and some seemingly unconnected inventions, events, and discoveries from the past... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Back in the late 1970s, the BBC debuted a science education show called Connections.

1:15.6

The host was James Brooke, an affable professorish guy, usually dressed in a beige polyester

1:21.5

leisure suit, who gave the term interdisciplinary a whole new meaning.

1:26.8

His thing was to take disparate developments in science

1:29.7

and technology and show how they were actually interconnected in ways that led to our modern

1:34.4

world. Nothing, he demonstrated, existed in isolation over the long term. One show connected

1:40.4

the invention of the canon to the first movie project in the late 1800s.

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