Soundtrack Considerations for the Great American Eclipse of 2017

Photo atop piece is adapted from “Solar Eclipse of 1921” by Eleanor Jaekel (Flickr, Creative Commons).

Next week, a gigantic swath of North America will get to behold a total solar eclipse. At a time when so much about our country is divisive in nature, one hopes that such an event would bring diverse groups together. After all, a mega eclipse like this is as much of interest to astrologers as it is to astronomers, which is a fairly apt metaphor for the types of (real or false)…