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Listening to Songs of Leonard Cohen: singing sadness to sadness in these anxious times – The Conversation AU
It may seem counter-intuitive to turn to Leonard Cohen’s ‘depressing’ songs during times of grief and uncertainty. But he shows there is always a reason to keep on keeping on.
In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic.
If anyone can express the particularities of distress, it is surely the artists; and they are surely needed at times like the present times when uncertainty, anxiety and, for too many people, bitter loss are the order of the day.
My first such experience was in my mid-teens, when I had to confront uncertainty, loss and grief without script or rehearsal. Initially at least, …
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