The Light and Dark of Music, with Lily E. Hirsch

Author and musicologist Lily E. Hirsch joins Kirk to talk about the many different aspects of music she's explored in her books.

REFERENCED ON THIS EPISODE:

Lily Hirsch's many books, including A Jewish Orchestra in Nazi Germany: Musical Politics and the Berlin Jewish Culture League, Weird Al: Seriously, and Can't Stop the Grrrls: Confronting Sexist Labels in Music from Ariana Grande to Yoko Ono
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, Gilbert Kaplan w/ th Vienna Philharmonic
Oliver Sacks' book Musicophelia
"Hot in Herre" by Nelly from Nellyville, 2002
"Trash Day" by "Weird Al" Yankovic from Poodle Hat, 2003
The episode of You're Wrong About, "Yoko Ono broke up the Beatles"
"Hyperballad" by Björk from Post, 1995
"Galileo" by Emily Saliers performed by Indigo Girls on Rites of Passage, 1992
"DDU-DU DDU-DU" by Blackpink from SQUARE UP - EP 2018
"The Butterfly Effect" by Caroline Mallonee from String Tunes, 2023

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