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Allison Russell - In The Hour Of ChaosBy Ocean Vuong Music has healed human beings for as long as we have been singing. But what does it mean when an artist deliberately turns her instrument into medicinal enactment? What is discovered when joy, fulfillment, and wonder are the guiding lights of an album, when one does not repair by accident — but by deliberate artistry? This is indeed rare, even daring, in a culture that sees artistic methods of healing and repair as merely “service” or “social work,” that believes “real” art, serious “grown-up” art, the art lauded by institutions and museums, shouldn’t concern itself with something so minor and domestic as “feeling better.” But this revisionist view of music goes against its historic reality: that music, made to heal, heals. This is true of our most ancient hymns and rhythms and chants. Why should this change now?
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