John Michael CooperFeb 167 minSEQUINA DUBOSE: FROM “BLURRED LINES,” A MESSAGE CRYSTAL CLEAR (pt. 1 of 2)In some ways, the year 2023 was a year of revanchism and regression in classical music. Just a few years earlier, many voices –...
John Michael CooperJul 15, 20239 minRIDDLED WITH MISTAKESIn the last few years, a music-publishing industry that historically has resolutely ignored compositions by composers of color and women...
John Michael CooperJun 26, 20235 minRACISM IN ROMANTIC MUSIC (4): CANONICAL SILENCING, AND SOME CONCLUSIONSAs a prefatory exercise for this post, consider the “rule of 4%”: less than four percent of the players in professional orchestras with...
John Michael CooperJun 24, 20233 minRACISM IN ROMANTIC MUSIC (2): SILENCING BY MUSIC PUBLISHERSIn Part 1 of this series of systems-level commentaries on Racism in Romantic Music (RRM), I discussed how the pervasive racism of the...
John Michael CooperFeb 289 minBLACK REINSCRIPTION, WHITE REPRISAL: ELIZABETH KECKLEY AND MARGARET BONDS
John Michael CooperFeb 167 minSEQUINA DUBOSE: FROM “BLURRED LINES,” A MESSAGE CRYSTAL CLEAR (pt. 1 of 2)