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Why Is American Classical Music So White? by Tom Huizenga 24 Sep 2019 7:18 AM Early
American composers could have shaken off their European sound and mined the rich trove of African
American music. They didn't. And one historian believes we're worse off because of it.
Mar 18, 2024 Both works show how strong emotions and opinions emerge across the
classical music spectrum, including who is considered to meet the
so-called gold standard of
music performance.
Antonin Dvorak predicted that
American classical music would draw from African
American traditions. A new article wonders
why American classical music has remained so
white.
The field must acknowledge a history of systemic racism while also giving new weight to Black composers, musicians, and listeners.
Twenty years ago, I got my first wake-up call to racism in my profession. A Black piano student asked me, "Are there any Blacks in
classical music?" As a
white concert pianist and teacher, I ...
San Francisco Chronicle
https://www.sfchronicle.com › music › article › Classical-so-white-and-male-Time-is-overdue-for-10983816.php
Any cultural endeavor that relies as heavily as
classical music does on the output of the past is always going to find dead
white males overrepresented, and there's not really an option for ...
Most
classical music professionals in major symphony orchestras around the country are
white, according to the League of
American Orchestras.
When Philip Ewell, a Black professor of
music theory, presented a keynote talk at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for
Music Theory (SMT), he asked
why the field of
music theory 1 remained so
white despite the group's two decades of diversity efforts to increase the number of people of color in ...