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Earth sounds: can music and nature come together?(Consumer News)(environmental music)

Publication: E
Publication Date: 01-MAY-05
Format: Online - approximately 1166 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Making a good point about the environment is a heavy burden to put on a piece of music. The great folksinger Woody Guthrie said, Music is in all of the sounds of nature and there never was a sound that was not music--the splash of an alligator, the rain dripping on dry leaves, a long and a at...

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...lonesome train whistling down, truck horn blowing a street corner speaker--kids squawling along the streets--the silent wail of wind and sky caressing the breasts of the desert ... [The world] is the music and the people are the song."

But if music is nature and vice versa, why is it so hard to bring them together? I can think of only a few pop songs that succeed at it. One is "(Nothing But) Flowers" by the Talking Heads, whose lyrics include: "There was a factory/Now there are mountains and rivers/We caught a rattlesnake/Now we got something for dinner/There was a shopping mall/Now it's all covered with flowers."

How many other songs articulate a tangible vision of...

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