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In focusing on U2’s “Red Hill Mining Town,” Miriam Mindel’s rigorous and exploratory podcast integrates two mutually-informing analysis: in it, Miriam builds the history of labor abuse in Appalachia alongside her granular sonic and lyrical anal
In her podcast, Grace Bassett places “Gimme Shelter” at the center of the anti-war and Civil Rights movements as a song that, in her words, “somehow captured the feelings of impending doom felt by many Americans” in 1969. Using the lens of apoc
Ana Cordova is interested in the relationship between music and emotions, and spends the duration of her podcast discussing these connections through the intersecting and diverging lenses of listener and artist. Strikingly, she does this throug
In her podcast, Payton Jager gives a brilliant and encompassing listen not just to Pete Seeger’s version of “We Shall Overcome,” but to the folk song in its myriad versions from slavery through labor strikes, the Highlander Folk School, the Civ
Daeja Hopkins’s podcast on Mariah Carey’s mega-hit “All I Want For Christmas Is You” is generous and upbeat, honing in on the sounds of Carey’s “Christmas-y chords” and “cozy core sequence” as well as on her masterful vocal style. Beginning by
Where biographical writing often follows a chronological progression, Carina Anderson’s brilliant podcast approaches the question of how Jackson expresses himself through his music by focusing closely on specific lyrics, sounds, and instruments
With caressing care and striking depth of description, Ahana Rosha creates her podcast in order to describe the sonic, lyrical, social, and personal value that she believes makes Elvis Presley’s “Can’t Help Falling In Love” so enduring.
In her podcast, Maia Kantorowski melds biographical elements with scientific and ethnomusicological research to tie together the nonsense sounds, joyful lyrics, and endless cyclicality of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September.” Maia takes an explorat
In response to the question of why Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” evokes such intense emotions from its listeners, Bogdan’s answer brings his listener into his own physical and psychological responses to the song. In a podcast that grapples with expe
Rebecca Herzog’s podcast on The Spice Girls’ “Wannabe” puts the song into rigorous and expansive conversation with the third-wave feminist movement (which overlapped with the 1996 hit). Beginning with the premise that both song and movement pus
In her celebration of the song “Brenda’s Got A Baby,” Danyele Heier describes 2Pac’s musical activism by contextualizing the song’s lyrics in their socio-cultural moment. Danyele’s podcast is engrossing for her sharp analytic ear and careful re
In her podcast, Megan Hack excavates the autobiographical elements to Matchbox 20’s hit “3AM”: Rob Thomas’s mom was fighting cancer at the time the song was written. Listening closely and incorporating her own experiences as a listener into her
In her podcast, Riley Fitzmaurice wanders through The Eagles’ classic “Hotel California,” masterfully drawing together its ambient music and wide-eyed lyrics to describe the song’s ear to temptation, rebellion, and what she calls “the glitz and
Zoë Fields focuses on teen angst, catharsis, and rebellion in her sonic, lyrical, cultural, and personal analysis of Marilyn Manson’s “Irresponsible Hate Anthem.” Drawing on what she finds to be the most controversial and anti-conformist elemen
In his podcast, Lukas Esser listens peripatetically to Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side,” telling the story of Reed’s social milieu and the queer subcultures that were, and are, so important to rock ‘n’ roll history. Lukas analyzes the song’s
Jasmine Cao’s podcast begins with the premise that Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” is still wildly popular over forty years after its original release. Her answer brims over with humor and personality; in her podcast, she discloses her own rel
Beginning with the premise that Kendrick Lamar “embraces music as a medium for storytelling,” Sharon Ahn tells the story of his song, “The Art of Peer Pressure.” With deft lyrical and sonic analysis that moves chronologically through Lamar’s pi
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