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Music Gets Masked Up (feat. Sasha Geffen and Harmony Holiday)
FromObject Of Sound
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Jan 22, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
From the late MF Doom to Grace Jones and Orville Peck, we take a look at musicians who have worn masks to protect their identities at a time when we’re all masking up to protect one another. In this episode, we talk with writers Sasha Geffen and Harmony Holiday about the different ways artists choose to mask up, and how covering one part of who we are can also uncover creative freedom. / Show Notes /For the playlist of songs curated for this episode visit http://bit.ly/oos-masksRead Harmony Holiday’s elegy to MF Doom for FriezeSasha’s book which Hanif ‘pushes’ on everyone is Glitter Up the Dark How Pop Music Broke the BinaryWatch the 'Slime' video by Shygirl and Mequetrefe by Arca to see how these two artists play with ‘real’ and ‘fake’ imagesHanif referenced when SIA performed ‘Wolves’ with Kanye West on SNL./ Credits / Object of Sound is a Sonos show produced by work x work: Scott Newman, Jemma Rose Brown, and Babette Thomas. The show is additionally produced by Hanif Abdurraqib. Our engineers are Sam Bair and Josh Hahn of The Relic Room.
Released:
Jan 22, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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