Rewind, Play, Repeat: Nicole Morrison on Music, Memory, Coming Out, and Memoir
About this episode
The episode explores the intersection of music, memory, and memoir through a conversation with Nicole Morrison.
The mixtape structural metaphor ushers in a philosophical lens. Because a mixtape (as every Gen X person who ever made one knows) is a curated act of autobiography. It's how you tell someone the truth about yourself when you don't yet have the courage to say it out loud. It's the thing you hand to someone and say: here is who I am, track by track, in the order I chose. That is exactly what memoir does. And in this conversation, Nicole, Gwendolyn, and Rudy explore what it means to tell that truth, on the page, in a life, in a body that lived multiple lives inside one. In this episode of Good Is In The Details , Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo sit down with Nicole Morrison , educator, author, founder of Nicole Morrison Strategies, and creator of The FoundHers Table, for a conversation that begins with music and ends somewhere much deeper: in the territory of what it costs to tell your own story, and what it gives you back. What we explore in this episode: The mixtape as a Gen X artifact: what making a mixtape actually was, why it mattered, and how that act of curation maps onto the act of writing a memoir The role of music in memory and identity: how songs hold entire chapters of a…
People in this episode
Hosts: Gwendolyn Dolske, Rudy Salo
Guest: Nicole Morrison
Topics covered
- music
- memory
- memoir
- identity
- storytelling
- Gen X
Keywords
- mixtape
- autobiography
- subjective truth
- curation
- life stories
- Gen X artifact
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Nicole Morrison Strategies
Books & works: The FoundHers Table
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