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The Music of Grief with Daphne Brooks

Jun 30, 2025 · 56 min

About this episode

The preeminent music critic, award-winning author, and Yale professor Daphne Brooks joins us for a wide ranging conversation about music as an expression of grief and a portal to our feelings. We learn about what it's like to bear "aural witness" across generations and communities, and get a better sense of why Brooks' own writing is so elegiac.