It's a spooky season sonic time travel trip on this episode of Music In Time, as host Evan McCormick takes listeners back to soundtracks of horror films from years past. Come along for a rollicking zombie hay ride, and consider the ways that music has shaped our understanding of the scary in different times: from the otherworldly synthetic sounds of 1970s gore, through the terrifying disaffection of mainstream teen-horror of the mid-1990s, and on to the spooky tongue-in-cheek sounds of the post-millennium undead. Featuring a playlist so good, it'll haunt you...

Playlist
1. Suspiria - Goblin (Suspiria, 1977)
2. Zombi - Claudio Simonetti's Goblin (Dawn of the Dead, 1978)
3. Main Theme - Title - John Carpenter (Halloween, 1978)
4. Whisper - Catherine (Scream, 1996)
5. Man of Steel - Frank Black (X-files/Songs In The Key of X, 1997)
6. This Ain't The Summer of Love - L7 (I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1997)
7. The Kids Aren't Alright - The Offspring (The Faculty, 1998)
8. A.M. 180 - Grandaddy (28 Days Later, 2002)
9. People Who Died - Jim Carroll band (Dawn of the Dead, 2004)
10. Runaway - The National (Warm Bodies, 2013)
11. Suspirium - Thom Yorke (Suspiria, 2019)
12 I Got 5 On It (Remix) - Michael Abels, Luniz, Michael Marshall (Us, 2019)

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Music does not just exist. It exists in specific times and places and in the sonic world of each individual listener who engages with it. That’s the basic idea behind "Music in Time," which explores the social and political context in which songs and albums emerge, are listened to, and reflected on over the years. Host Evan McCormick uses different formats to play with the idea of music in time—sometimes focusing on a single album and detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release, sometimes putting together playlists that explore a theme or concept in songs through the years. Each broadcast asks: how is music shaped by its own historical moment, and, in turn, how does music shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he uses oral history interviews to understand how people remember and make sense of the past. By night, McCormick is a music lover and singer-songwriter, recording under the stage name Egan Caufield. For most of his life these two worlds remained separate, but after relocating to Catskill in 2020, he chose to bring history and music together over the airwaves, and "Music in Time" was born.