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Music in Time: Siouxsie And the Banshees' Juju

Oct 26, 2022: 10am - 11am
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Siouxsie And the Banshees, juju Broadcast Image

Siouxsie And the Banshees, juju Broadcast Image. From Evan McCormick. (Oct 26, 2022)

Hosted by Evan McCormick.

A week of haunted history is featured during this Halloween broadcast, as the clock gets turned back to June 1981, and the release of Juju by Siouxsie And The Banshees. It is one of the all-time great dark albums, shot through with supernatural energy, punctuated by Siouxsie Sioux's spectral voice and John McGeoch's slashing guitar. But what makes this album so haunting? Listeners will learn about Britain's long summer of 1981 — a time of racial tension and economic malaise — just as the punk rock movement that Siouxsie and company had been central to was reckoning with the specter of post-punk adulthood. Host Evan McCormick will spin some of the spookiest songs on the album, then take a look at other moments in time when the confluence of sound and context have conjured dark forces for listeners.

Playlist
1. Siouxsie And the Banshees - Arabian Knights
2. Siouxsie And the Banshees - Spellbound
3. Siouxsie And the Banshees - Halloween
4. Roky Erickson - Night Of The Vampire
5. Siouxsie And the Banshees - Night Shift
6. The Nymphs - The Highway
7. Screamin' Jay Hawkins - I Put A Spell On You
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
9. Siouxsie And the Banshees - Sin In My Heart

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. Each broadcast will focus on a single album, detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release and moments in time that made certain music resonate anew. How is music shaped by these historical moments, and, in turn, how does it shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he is part of the Obama Presidency Oral History project, interviewing a range of people — from cabinet members to ordinary folks — about their memories of the Obama years. 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.

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