Orpheus Looked Back - When Music Moved on Without Us

Name the last hit song you heard about a friend or a mother. A Michigan State University study of 38,467 songs by 230 artists, 1947 to 2024, found popular lyrics growing less emotional and less social over time, and the drift shows up inside individual careers too.

On this show we take the data to the oldest stories about song. Orpheus and Eurydice, the keening women and the banshee of Ireland, Baldr and the one voice that would not weep, the Norse curse poles, and the Piper of Hameln. What is a chorus for, and what happens to a culture when it stops singing one?

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