Foreword: Disciplining Time

Personally I would think any Cyndi Lauper ballad from the 80s could make a decent special issue in a humanities journal, as her songs evoke a decade in which walls broke down on various fronts and coming-together initiatives were everywhere (not least because there were songs made for them). A time when songs had a followable tune, a time that is making YouTubers reminiscing over it as “the best decade ever.”