RT Live: The Power of Babel

In this live taping of Access Contemporary Music’s award-winning
podcast Relevant Tones we'll talk with
John McWhorter about the development of language
and perform several new pieces of music inspired by and
incorporating language and created especially for this evening.


McWhorter teaches linguistics, philosophy,
and music history at Columbia University, and writes for the New
York Times on language and race issues. His
book The Power of Babel is the first
book written for the layperson about the history of language.