Switched on Pop
Pop On A Perilous Planet (w Kyle Devine)
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Earth Day 2021 gives us the chance to pause our usual programming and consider the role pop music plays in our deepening climate emergency. On Side A, we listen to artists who have confronted the climate crisis head-on. Side B considers the environmental cost of streaming music with Kyle Devine, author of Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music.
Songs Discussed:
George Pope Morris - Woodman, Spare That Tree!
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
Tower of Power - Only So Much Oil in the Ground
Various Artists - Love Song for the Earth
Anohni - 4 Degrees
The Weather Station - The Robber
DJ Cavem - Sprout That Life
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