As global temperatures have climbed, so have mentions of climate change in popular songs. Here are 10 that led the way. At its best, music can act as a kind of auditory restorative, lifting us up when we're down. It can help hold us together, both as individuals and collectively, when a trauma sends ripples across society. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the music of bounce artist 5th Ward Webbie crystallized the feeling, common among many New Orleanians, that their government had abandoned them. Yet in recent decades, even as climate change caused temperatures to soar and triggered lethal hurricanes, catastrophic fires and cataclysmic floods across the United States and its territories, a keen ear could hear the theme of global warming starting to swell, from country to rap, rock to pop. And like climate change, those references are accelerating. Two-thirds came in the last decade, which was also the hottest decade on record, with 26 of the songs released last year.
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The ballads feature square, steady rhythms and melodies voiced by accordion, trumpets, and their synthesized counterparts, but the D. Cumbia sonidera is just the sort of underground musical phenomenon—organically influenced by social networks and their access to technology—that attracts Clayton, a D. Uproot explores some of the massive musical shifts prompted by new technology of the last 15 years. Underpinning his discussions is the transition from music contained within tangible media such as vinyl records, cassettes, and compact discs to dematerialized MP3s. That format, widely popularized in the late s, is rendered slippery and fast by lossy file compression a technology that eliminates some data in order to shrink files and is delivered via online stores, streaming services, and YouTube, along with illegal file-sharing platforms. Clearly, the properties of digital software have enabled anyone across the globe to experiment with Auto-Tune, but why would culturally conservative Amazigh musicians in rural Morocco find this effect desirable? Clayton tracked down and interviewed a handful of singers and ultimately concluded that Auto-Tune intensifies the gloriously strident voices of the Amazigh women, amplifying feminine ideals. At the same time, it preserves the modesty of these professional female performers with a sonic veil, eliminating any question of vocal propriety. Clayton is uniquely positioned to make such observations.
