Halberstam to Graphic Novels: Top 10 Books Together, they’re 10 of the most powerful responses to 9/11 … with a few bonus tracks thrown in for good measure. Some of these are songs, some are albums, some are compositions some are healing and uniting, others partisan and divisive. I’ve defined a 9/11 song as all of those things. response to the attacks, or a song about the uncertain new world that was left in the rubble of the World Trade Center, or even a song that was written before 9/11 but came to take on greater meaning and resonance in its aftermath? Or can a 9/11 song be something else: a song about the U.S. Is a 9/11 song only a song about or prompted by the attacks? A typical playlist of 9/11 music would be awash in melodrama and overstatement, knee-jerk chest-thumping and maudlin sogginess.īut that’s not to say that some artists didn’t rise to the occasion - though to come up with a list of 10, I widened the net and broadened the scope. Tragedy may be a powerful impetus for great art - but September 11, it’s sad to say, resulted in a lot more bad songs than good ones.
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