Broasdcast: January 28, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.
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Music specials host Paul Ingles and a panel of music scholars recall and celebrate the career of Motown music legend Marvin Gaye.
This second of two episodes tracks Gaye's career from his 1972 to his death in 1984, shot by his father during an argument at home. All or part of 21 Marvin Gaye songs are sampled.
Guest commentators are Anthony DeCurtis of Rolling Stone Magazine, Birgitta Johnson - ethnomusicologist Birgitta Johnson at the University of South Carolina, music scholar Hannah Grantham, and music writer and humanities scholar with City Colleges of Chicago, Aaron Cohen.
Excerpts from an archival interview with Marvin Gaye are also heard.