Songs as a Political Weapon
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Essay Series: Songs as a Political Weapon
When the long-form record stopped being art and started being argument
Playlist
Rodriguez – Sugar Man
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Fela Kuti and Africa 70 – Water No Get Enemy
Bob Marley and the Wailers – Exodus
Pink Floyd – Pigs (Three Different Ones)
Rage Against the Machine – Killing in the Name
Kendrick Lamar – Alright
Beyoncé – BREAK MY SOUL
The Polygon Portal Essay Series is a programme of curated immersive listening sessions, pairing themed playlists with companion essays that set the music in its cultural, technological, political and historical context. The sessions are built on the notion that knowing the world behind a record changes what you feel when you hear it. Each essay is presented in 360 spatial audio designed to put audiences inside the music, and experience art in new ways.
Knowing the context of a record changes what you feel when you hear it.
The concept album has a bad reputation – indulgent, overlong, self-important.
It is also, at its best, an instrument of political argument.
Pink Floyd’s Animals.
Marley’s Exodus.
Nirvana’s Nevermind.
Radiohead’s OK Computer.
Beyoncé’s RENAISSANCE.
The long-form record as weaponry.
At Polygon Portal, a curated selection from these albums is reimagined on one of the world’s best spatial audio systems.
Six decades of political argument, played the way it was meant to be felt.
