John Michael CooperJun 26, 20235 min readRACISM 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 25, 20233 min readRACISM IN ROMANTIC MUSIC (3): ARCHIVAL SILENCINGIn Parts 1 and 2 of this four-part post I attempted a systems-level analysis of the means and mechanisms (“linchpins”) by which racism...
John Michael CooperJun 24, 20233 min readRACISM 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 CooperJun 23, 20237 min readRRM – RACISM IN ROMANTIC MUSIC (Part 1 of 4)Dear Constant Reader, I’ve been absent from this blog for a while, partly because I needed to recharge, partly because I’m currently...
John Michael CooperMar 29, 20224 min readTHREE IN D.C. The Voice of Margaret Bonds Rises in Three Events in the U.S. Capital This Weekend The estimable Margaret Bonds’s (1913-72) musical...
John Michael CooperFeb 18, 20224 min readTHE CREDO SOUNDS AGAINW.E.B. Du Bois’s bold and brilliant civil-rights manifesto Credo was first published in 1904 and republished with revisions at the head...
John Michael CooperApr 6, 20219 min readTHE PROBLEM WITH PROGRAMS (Part 2)Florence Price’s First Symphony, the 1933-34 World’s Fair, and Three Tribbles In the first part of this post I talked about the context...