Playlists
by William Lee Adams, June 12, 2023 9:40 AM
Sorrow and joy, guilt and responsibility, remembrance and denial — music helps us encode and later restore so many of our feelings and experiences. While writing my memoir Wild Dances, I used this playlist to excavate memories, some of which I’d forgotten, others that I’d deliberately buried. Those memories helped me understand how my various traumas and failures, which I now see as re-directions, led me to embrace Eurovision — the glitter-slicked song contest known for its outlandish staging...
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