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Cannonball with Wesley Morris

We Debate NPR’s Greatest Albums by Women

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.89.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Last month, NPR published a list of the 150 greatest albums by women. The list was debated. It was discussed. There were alternative lists of 150 additional albums not on the NPR list. But quibbling with the particulars misses an important concern about what it means to argue for a women-only canon. This week we discuss why it takes an all-women team at NPR to celebrate women musicians, and why women are glaringly missing from lists determined by both genders. We also revisit the song of the summer, a phenomenon that is ruled by male artists — but perhaps not according to us.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Jenna Wortham.

0:01.7

I'm Wesley Morris.

0:03.0

We're two culture writers at the New York Times.

0:06.2

I'm mostly right about how humans relate to technology.

0:09.0

And I'm mostly right about how popular culture relates to humans.

0:12.8

And this is still processing.

0:16.4

We're back.

0:26.3

We're back.

0:26.9

Wesley.

0:27.5

Hi.

0:28.1

Welcome back to our pop culture confession booth.

0:30.4

Yes.

0:30.6

What's on your list this week?

0:33.4

OK, Jenna, I'm going to hand you something.

0:35.6

Oh, God.

0:36.4

I don't like this.

0:36.8

And news item.

0:39.0

Here you go.

0:40.2

In our newspaper.

0:41.3

What?

0:41.8

In our newspaper.

0:43.0

Oh, oh, oh, oh.

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