RealTalk Op ED Harif Abdurragib + Jacqueline Woodson Music, Sound, Language, Writing
REAL TALK Op-Ed | Music, Sound, Language + the Power of Writing What happens when music, rhythm, language and writing come together? In this edition of EarthSTARS.Earth MEDIA™
| REAL TALK: Climate, Creativity + The Future, we reflect on ideas shared by acclaimed writers Hanif Abdurraqib and Jacqueline Woodson about the relationship between music, sound, words, memory and storytelling. Their conversation offers an important reminder: writing isn't only about the words we choose.
It can have rhythm. Sound. Cadence. Emotion. Like music, language can help us remember, connect and experience someone else's story in an entirely different way. For EarthSTARS.earth, this conversation resonates deeply. Why do we use songwriting and music to communicate environmental stories? Why combine science and education with artists, writers and young people?
Because information can help us understand an issue—but art can help us feel it. Through EarthSTARS SongLAB™, we're exploring how environmental stories can become songs and how those songs can become another way to learn, communicate and inspire conversation. Music can cross generations, cultures and backgrounds. A lyric can make an idea memorable.
A rhythm can give words another dimension. And a story can help us see something we thought we already understood from an entirely new perspective. That's why creativity belongs in conversations about our future. At EarthSTARS, we believe: Policy informs people. Culture moves people. What song, book, poem or piece of writing has stayed with you because of the way the words sounded and made you feel? Tell us in the comments.
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