Episode Synopsis "The Things We're Made Of"

Welcome to Songs and Objects, a podcast that explores the materiality of song. In this episode, Richard talks about some songs and objects in the work of the American singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter. Topics covered include shirts, maps and other evocative objects, songs as transformational objects, and the ways in which songs use objects to chart the life course.

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More episodes of the podcast Songs and Objects

• ‘Maybe This Thing Was a Masterpiece’
• Richard Dawson's Object-Oriented Songcraft
• Nightsticks, Water Cannons, Tear Gas, Padlocks: The Musicality of Lists
• The Things We're Made Of
• Foolish Things