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America Dissected

The Sound of COVID-19

America Dissected

Incision Media LLC

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Abdul reflects on the way that COVID-19 has changed so much of the fabric of our lives, especially our relationship with music. He talks to Zola Jesus, a singer/songwriter about how COVID19 has impacted her and her life, as well as Anthony Fantano, host of The Needle Drop, about how it’s shaping the industry.

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0:00.0

College's universities have become major sources of outbreaks all over the country, with

0:12.4

college-based outbreaks in all 50 states.

0:15.6

In new tapes from journalist Bob Woodward, Trump revealed he knew just how serious the

0:19.6

virus was, even as he played it down in public.

0:23.4

One of several Phase III clinical trials was temporarily halted over serious neurological

0:27.5

symptoms in a participant.

0:29.5

This is America Dissected.

0:30.5

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul-Elsaid.

0:37.7

If you're like me, you probably found yourself up in your fields quite a few times since

0:41.4

the pandemic started.

0:42.9

If it's not the staggering loss of life, it's the loss of livelihoods.

0:46.7

If it's not the interminable exile into our own homes, it's the fact that we desperately

0:50.4

miss people COVID-19 has ripped from us.

0:53.6

And sometimes you want a good song to help you get those fields all the way out.

0:57.7

But part of the experience of music is the show, the fact that you're supposed to pay

1:01.1

attention to the performance, not everything that's happening backstage.

1:05.1

But when you do, you realize that like all things, COVID-19 has taken its toll on the

1:09.6

people who make our music.

1:11.4

Already, music is one of the most inequitable industries out there.

1:15.3

For every act in the top 40, there are 400 others who are barely scraping by.

1:20.0

And the streaming platforms have decimated the income stream from selling music itself,

1:24.1

our artists rely on touring revenue to pay their bills and support their work.

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