What popular music can teach us about epidemics | Austin C. Okigbo | TEDxMileHigh

If we want to prevent the next pandemic, we can look to medical history for clues – but art history has a lot to teach us too. As an ethnomusicologist, Austin C. Okigbo studies the music inspired by infectious diseases, from a 15th-century hymn sung for protection from the Bubonic Plague to songs written during the COVID-19, like "Quarantine Song" by Adam Sandler. Here he explains what popular music can teach us about how people behave during epidemics.

[TheEvelynTurner]

Fascinating- thank you for this. I hope we learn.