Tear Down the Wall

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
In 1989, the year that the Berlin Wall fell and tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square, popular music also experienced striking changes. Today, find out how music lost its social bearings as the eighties came to a close, in everything from British rave and gangsta rap to the emergence of grunge. Our guest is Joshua Clover, author of the new book 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About.

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