The Eights | 1978 in Music and Media

In the next episode of The Eights: A Brief History of the American Culture Wars, John Schaefer, WNYC host of New Sounds and Soundcheck, and Kurt Andersen, co-founder of Spy Magazine, host of Studio 360 and author of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History (Random House, 2017), talks about some music that defined the year 1978 and the emerging culture wars.

→ Have a Spotify account? Because 1978 was such a rich year for so many different genres of music, we made you a Spotify playlist!