Hidden Figures
Ongoing History of New Music
Curiouscast
4.8 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime. Right, that's it. Come on. Lights out. You've got a test tomorrow. Just two minutes. I'm about to reach the next level. It's going off now. Yeah, whatever. Let's see. Where's the app? Oh, here it is. What? |
| 0:21.4 | How? |
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| 0:39.4 | I've always been something of a nut when it comes to the space program. |
| 0:42.8 | But even though I've read all the books and seen all the documentaries and watched all the movies, |
| 0:48.1 | I was still surprised to learn something new with the movie Hidden Figures. |
| 0:52.6 | This was a 2016 film based on a book of the same |
| 0:56.1 | name, and it told the true story about black female mathematicians who worked at NASA |
| 1:02.1 | during the hottest period of the space race. They were computers in the original sense of the |
| 1:08.0 | world. People who computed things, complex things like flight |
| 1:12.6 | trajectories and reentry methods and landing coordinates. They were even assigned to check and correct |
| 1:17.9 | the calculations spit out by NASA's big IBM mainframes. So their work was essential to the |
| 1:23.4 | American space effort. But this being the 60s, these women were segregated away from the |
| 1:28.2 | other scientists, meaning that their work was largely forgotten until the book and the movie came out. |
| 1:33.8 | This got me thinking, are there any forgotten figures in music? I'm talking about women who did |
| 1:39.8 | awesome and important things, but have largely been ignored by the traditional history of rock. |
| 1:46.3 | You know, I'm talking people beyond Deborah Harry, Janice Joplin, Demi Nix, Chrissy Hyde and |
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