myTunes: Music & Identity
Series: The Nerve - Music and the Human Experience
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Length: 00:53:32
Today, it seems, everyone has the opportunity to create their very own personal soundtrack to their lives. There's a very simple reason that the iPod starts with the letter "I". On Episode 5 of The Nerve, host Jowi Taylor examines how music plays an integral part in everyone's identity, regardless of class, race, religion, education, gender, or sexuality. But wait - no, in fact, it's got everything to do with class, race, religion, education, gender and sexuality.
Just how much power does music have to create a sense of "me" and "you", of "us" and "them"? How can songs written by other people be described as your tunes or my tunes? The Nerve 5 declares its own musical identity.
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Piece Description
Today, it seems, everyone has the opportunity to create their very own personal soundtrack to their lives. There's a very simple reason that the iPod starts with the letter "I". On Episode 5 of The Nerve, host Jowi Taylor examines how music plays an integral part in everyone's identity, regardless of class, race, religion, education, gender, or sexuality. But wait - no, in fact, it's got everything to do with class, race, religion, education, gender and sexuality.
Just how much power does music have to create a sense of "me" and "you", of "us" and "them"? How can songs written by other people be described as your tunes or my tunes? The Nerve 5 declares its own musical identity.
Broadcast History
Part Five of the Nerve originally aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in September 2008.
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Nerve: Opening Theme | Paolo Pietropaolo | unreleased. | 01:40 | ||
| Escalay | Kronos Quartet & Hamza el Din | Pieces of Africa. | 02:20 | ||
| Humoresque, Op. 101 No. 7 | Fritz Kreisler | Kreisler: Original Compositions & Arrangements. | EMI Classics | 01:00 | |
| Saajan Kahan Jaoongi Main | Kronos Quartet, Zakir Hussain & Wu Man | You’ve Stolen My Heart – songs from RD Burman’s Bollywood. | 01:00 | ||
| Surge | Tagaq | Sinaa. | 00:30 | ||
| Qimiruluapik | Tagaq | Sinaa. | 02:00 | ||
| Finlandia | Jukka Pekka Saraste/Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra | Jean Sibelius. | RCA 7765-2 RC | 02:20 | |
| We Shall Overcome | Pete Seeger | Pete Seeger. | 01:15 | ||
| Smells Like Teen Spirit | Nirvana | Nevermind. | 01:30 | ||
| The Rainbow Connection | Kermit the Frog | The Muppet Movie Soundtrack. | 01:00 | ||
| Rondo alla Turca | Kveta Novotná | Mozart Collection. | X5 Music Group | 02:00 | |
| Rondo Alla Turca (4) | Vladimir Ivanoff & L'orient Imaginaire | Alla Turca. | 00:30 | ||
| Blue Rondo alla Turk | Dave Brubeck | Time Out. | 01:30 | ||
| Londonsko Horo | Vladimir Ivanoff & L'orient Imaginaire | Labyrinth: Medieval & Bulgarian Music. | 00:40 | ||
| Southern Accents | Johnny Cash | Unchained. | 01:30 | ||
| Honky Tonkin’ | Hank Williams | Apollo 13: Music from the Motion Picture. | 01:30 | ||
| Funkytown | Lipps Incorporated | Funkytown. | Casablanca Records | 00:40 | |
| Sold American | Kinky Friedman | Sold American. | 00:50 | ||
| Deeper than the Holler | Randy Travis | Old 8 X 10. | Warner | 02:00 | |
| Seven | Norah Jones | Come Away With Me. | 00:50 | ||
| Syeeda’s Song Flute | John Coltrane | Giant Steps. | 01:00 | ||
| Nodir Paare Uttchhe Dhnoa | Kronos Quartet & Zakir Hussain | You've Stolen My Heart. | 01:30 | ||
| I Love You…I’ll Kill You | Enigma | The Cross of Changes. | 01:25 | ||
| If a Tree Falls | Bruce Cockburn | Big Circumstance. | 02:45 | ||
| Gens du Pays | Gilles Vigneault et les Charbonniers de l’Enfer | La sacrée rencontre. | 02:25 | ||
| Mohunga | the Aka Pygmy tribe | African Rhythms. | Warner Classics | 02:30 | |
| Yangissa | Aka Pygmies | African Rhythms. | Warner Classics | 01:15 |
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