REWIND: Coping with Climate through Music

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🗓️ 13 January 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Music and social movements have historically gone hand in hand. Folk music played a unifying role for the labor movements in the United States. Music was central to the protests against the Vietnam War and in favor of Civil Rights. As more people become aware of the climate crisis, music is starting to reflect that. But there is still no one song or artist inspiring climate action the way music catalyzed other movements. Why aren’t more musical artists raising the alarm over the growing climate catastrophe? And for the artists who are, how do they express the anxiety and grief that they and their listeners are experiencing? Guests: Tamara Lindeman, Musician, The Weather Station Jayson Greene, Contributing Editor, Pitchfork For show notes and related links, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.1	Music often reflects the feelings of the broader society.
0:38.3	So in the face of failing government action on climate,
0:42.3	why don't we have more climate protest songs?
0:45.3	Part of what's wrong with this issue is people have so many personal feelings about it
0:50.3	that keep them away from that feeling of indignance or of power.
0:55.0	And yet more and more musicians are creating work to help them process their own grief and anxiety.
1:01.0	I started to notice just how many new projects all across the spectrum.
1:07.0	People were singing about the climate crisis in a newly direct way.
1:11.6	How do the personal feelings of the artist translate to the listener?
1:15.6	There's a lot of room for vulnerability. Because if you hear something and you're alone,
1:19.6	maybe you can take it in in a different way than you could if it's like a speech or a newscast.
1:25.6	Coping with Climate through music. Up next on Climate One.
1:31.2	Music and political or social movements go hand in hand.
1:35.9	Nelson Mandela described it like this.
1:38.8	Music uplifts even as it tells a sad tale.
1:42.6	You may be poor, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you
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