Tom Ewing | Why pop music makes you remember things wrong

Pop's visceral ability to trigger memory makes it an obvious tool for historical storytellers. But those memories don't always tally with what really went on"Emotional history" is how the film-maker Adam Curtis describes his Strange Death of Political England project, premiered last month on his blog. This planned series of films will use music and BBC archive footage to create a sense of "what it feels to live through history as an experience". Curtis has put 30 minutes of the 1970 film online,...

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