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In recent weeks Ian Chapman has turned his attention to the colloquial term often given to the cycle of life: the ‘Hatched, matched and dispatched’.
Having tackled ‘dispatched’ (songs for funerals) and ‘matched’ (songs for marriages and civil unions), he now turns his attention to ‘hatched’; that is, songs celebrating birth.
From Stevie Wonder to Madonna and Lauryn Hill to David Bowie, today’s song selections demonstrate how the life-changing experiences of childbirth and parenthood can be captured in music that universally communicates the artists’ experience for themselves, their fans and beyond.
Ian Chapman is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Music at the University of Otago
