Let Us Take You on an Pop Escapade
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Joy. Freedom. Resilience. We kick off a summer playlist project with Danyel Smith's selections from the Black women who have defined pop. From Phillis Wheatley to Beyoncé, read more about Danyel’s picks in her new book, Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop. Playlist curation will begin this Sunday, so record a voice memo with your playlist recommendation (and the story that inspired it) and email it to [email protected] to have your song included.
*Starting this week, we are publishing individual segments from each live episode. Listen back earlier this week for another segment talking about finding purpose through service with YA author, Jason Reynolds.
Companion listening for this episode:
Jason Reynolds Needs to Be Useful (7/18/2022)
The YA author talks about his successes, fears, and his new podcast that explores his relationship with his mother.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, a reminder that we've changed things up in your feet a bit. |
| 0:05.4 | As of this week, we've started releasing the show in segments. |
| 0:09.1 | So on Mondays, we'll give you the lead segments and today, you're getting the second segment. |
| 0:14.7 | The point here is we know our podcast listeners want more control over when and what you |
| 0:20.7 | download. |
| 0:21.7 | So we're giving you that. |
| 0:23.2 | And of course, we now livestream the show on YouTube each Sunday. |
| 0:27.3 | So that means you've got the option of going over to WNYC's YouTube channel to join |
| 0:32.2 | us for the live show on Sundays at 6 p.m. Eastern. |
| 0:35.7 | That way you can get the whole thing or just catching it later on YouTube on your own time. |
| 0:40.4 | So lots of ways to listen and just as important, lots of ways to lean in and talk to us about |
| 0:46.3 | what you're hearing. |
| 0:47.7 | Call us when you listen live, tweet at us, chat us in the YouTube, email us at anxiety |
| 0:53.6 | at wnyc.org. |
| 0:55.5 | But do chime in if what you hear sparks a thought or a question or even a story about yourself. |
| 1:01.6 | Okay, here's the second part of this week's show. |
| 1:12.2 | It is summer, challenging summer to be sure, but summer. |
| 1:16.4 | And that has us thinking about music. |
| 1:20.0 | We've been talking on our team about the songs that have defined some of our summers. |
| 1:24.6 | And some ways, the music we dance around and sing out and love each other to when the |
| 1:30.5 | days are long and hot, they're almost like these emotional timed capsules, like little |
| 1:35.8 | vehicles for our personal stories. |
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