musicology

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• 1/31/2021
  

  Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest & White Denial: An Interview With Steven Garabedian

  by Aaron J. Leonard

  Steve Garabedian's new book reexamines the life and work of Lawrence Gellert, a Jewish New Yorker who relocated to the South, recorded African American songs, and clashed with the growing establishment of white folklorists. Is it time to reappraise Gellert's contributions to the preservation of Black musical culture?

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• SOURCE: The Bitter Southerner
  8/4/2020
  

  Somebody Died, Babe: A Musical Coverup of Racism, Violence & Greed

  by Kevin Kehrberg & Jeffrey A. Keith

  The song "Swannanoa Tunnel" has been changed through generations of recordings by white musicians, concealing its origins as a song sung by Black convict-lease laborers who were forced to work in deadly conditions, often as punishment for minor crimes (or no crimes at all). 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  September 27, 2019
  

  She's Rising from the Depths of Soviet Music History

  by Gabrielle Cornish

  Interest is building in Galina Ustvolskaya, the reclusive Russian composer born 100 years ago whose nickname was “the lady with the hammer.”