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The spoken word artist Laurie Anderson disseminates phrases with the lulling quality of a siren as she recounts the travels and travails of Amelia Earhart, who set out from Oakland on 20 May 1937 in a bid to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe, intending to fly from California all the way back to California. 20 May...

In the spring of 1971 the release of What’s Going On saw Marvin Gaye switch things up with a song cycle written from the perspective of a Vietnam War veteran, who returns to the United States to find a country in the throes of poverty, racial enmity, drug addiction and environmental degradation. A clarion call for the vulnerable, heartsick and downtrodden...