Forum From the Archives: The Music That Got Us Through 2020

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Whether it was streaming our favorite songs, tuning into a live DJ set online or picking up an instrument, music helped many of us navigate this difficult year. In August, we asked listeners to share the songs getting you through 2020 and we've been playing some of them on air each week. This hour, as the year comes to a close, we'll play more of the songs you said kept you going in 2020 and talk with NPR's music correspondent Ann Powers about the meaning of music in a year like this one. This segment originally aired on 12/30/20. Guests: Ann Powers, music critic and correspondent, NPR Ariana Proehl, producer and fill-in host, Forum Derreck Johnson, designer, Slate; event producer and promoter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.7	From KQED. From KQBD in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.
1:14.6	Coming up on Forum, I'll look back at the songs that got us through the first year of the pandemic.
1:19.6	Whether it was streaming our favorite songs, tuning into a live DJ set online, or picking up an instrument,
1:25.6	music helped many of us navigate that difficult year.
1:28.7	While 2020 is over, unfortunately 2022 has not been short of disasters and difficult news.
1:34.5	So this hour, we'll listen back to the songs Forum listeners, NPR's music correspondent and Powers,
1:39.7	and former forum producer, Ariana Prail, said kept them going in trying times.
2:00.0	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. We're playing episodes from the Forum Archives this week and talking with Forum's producers about their favorites.
2:08.4	Joining me now is former forum producer Ariana Prail, who is now a cultural reporter for KQED, who produced a special series in the first year the pandemic called The Music
2:18.5	That Got Us Through 2020. Hey, Ariana, how's it going? Hey, Mina. Thanks for having me.
2:25.1	I'm just okay. You know, I'm feeling pretty weary with the ways of the world, to quote the singer
2:31.4	Solange Knowles, which is why when I was asked to pick a show from the archives,
2:36.3	the show felt appropriate because I feel like 2022 is another year where we're looking for sources
2:41.8	of energy and solace, wherever we can find them. And music is one of those helping get us through.
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