{"id":1098,"date":"2009-06-30T13:11:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/06\/30\/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T13:11:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T18:11:09","slug":"mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2009\/06\/30\/mercy-mercy-me-the-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"mercy mercy me (the ecology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZPIrevDt22k?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The explicitly ecological piece on Marvin Gaye&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/cg\/amg.dll?p=amg&amp;sql=10:wifuxqu5ld6e~T1\">What&#8217;s Going On<\/a> was Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), which, like a lot of his music at the time, fuses a clear-eyed realism with an optimistic, gospel-tinged sense of possibility. I&#8217;m not sure where this video comes from (or why David Bowie appears in it), but the shots of people (heads, notably) in thought underlines the sober message of &#8220;think, man&#8221; &#8212; something that was possible in cooler, more reflective times. Michael Franti&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aw5HfIW2lC8\">Everyday Life Has Become a Health Risk<\/a>&#8221; (no video available) tries to do this as well, though less coolly than some of the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy&#8217;s other songs, like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FCFZPT2skTY\">Music and Politics<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gaye and Jackson shared <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=QKOv-tsEB-sC&amp;dq=%22what%27s+going+on%22+%22marvin+gaye%22&amp;lr=&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\">Motown<\/a>, at the time at least, and with <a href=\"http:\/\/aivakhiv.blog.uvm.edu\/2009\/04\/wandering_amidst_the_ruins.html\">Motor City&#8217;s demise and potential eco-revival<\/a>, there&#8217;s a story to be told about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_of_Detroit\">Detroit<\/a>, black music, and ecology somewhere in there (cf. George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, technoists Derrick May, Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, et al.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The explicitly ecological piece on Marvin Gaye&#8217;s What&#8217;s Going On was Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), which, like a lot of his music at the time, fuses a clear-eyed realism with an optimistic, gospel-tinged sense of possibility. I&#8217;m not sure where this video comes from (or why David Bowie appears in it), but the shots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[196,692399],"tags":[4448,501],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ecoculture","category-music-soundscape","tag-ecopolitics","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-hI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8081,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/03\/12\/a-7-year-musical-itch\/","url_meta":{"origin":1098,"position":0},"title":"A 7-year musical itch","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"March 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"One of my pet musicological theories is that the years 1967-74 were the most creative 7-year period in the history of musical humanity. 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