CBC Music⁠64%

How Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and more disabled artists changed music ⁠55%

By CBC⁠0%

5/28/2025, 9:18:31 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 21 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Indoctrination, and Hasty Generalization, with Post Hoc (False Cause) as the most egregious example at 23.1% saturation with 81 hits. Analysis detected 637 faulty-reasoning hits from 350 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 50.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠55% (10,426 of 22,840 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 54.40% of the article peer group.

Cripping is a term used by disabled people to reclaim how they see themselves. 
As Eliza Chandler, an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University's School of Disability Studies writes: "Animated by the experiences of living in a world that does not typically desire us, or even imagine us as cultural participants, disability arts specifically mobilizes a disruptive politic ... the disability arts community doesn't want to be included in an ableist world/culture, we want to create something new. 
This disruptive politic comes through the word 'crip.'" 
When it comes to music, an industry that often treats disabled musicians and spectators alike as an afterthought, they've taken matters into their own hands. 
In a co-production between CBC Music, CBC Creator Network and AccessCBC, composer, performer and comedian James Hamilton takes viewers through the different ways disabled musicians have innovated, or "cripped," music. 
"Disabled musicians, by simply existing and being artists, can radically change the music world as we know it. 
This can be in the concert form, musical content, new technologies, or breaking down our definition of what music entails," Hamilton says in the introduction. 
Two such musicians are Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, who were both disabled by the polio epidemic that swept Canada in the 1950s. 
After losing some of the mobility in her hands, Mitchell changed the tuning on her guitar to make it easier to play, and simultaneously changed the sound of the chords, leading to her signature "jazzy" guitar sound. 
Young recorded his 1972 album, Harvest, in a back brace after an accident on his ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains. 
The restrictive apparatus could have led to his "more mellow and minimalistic style," limiting his ability to play guitar and sing. 
More recently, ASL rapper Sean Forbes is popularizing sign-rapping with his songs like Watch These Hands, and Toronto-based composer Stephanie Orlando is writing music with neurodivergent listeners in mind. 
Both are making space for more diverse music audiences. 
Watch the video above for more insights into the myriad ways people are "cripping music." 
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350 words analyzed.

Speakers

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Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageEliza Chandler • 64 words • 100.0% coverageEliza Chandler • 8 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 30 words • 100.0% coverageJames Hamilton • 18 words • 0.0% coverageJames Hamilton • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 37 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 15 words • 100.0% coverage
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James Hamilton

100%flagged-word coverage
43 attributed words37% of attributed speech86% writer coverage
0%10.0%20.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -19.1 ptsWriter: 19.1%James Hamilton: 0.0%0.0%Unattributed Quote-6.0 ptsWriter: 6.0%James Hamilton: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-6.0 ptsWriter: 6.0%James Hamilton: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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