Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Othello’s Daughter The New Yorker 2013-07-29 Alex Ross, Music Critic Aldridge, circa 1865, and his daughter Luranah, a singer, in an undated image. Credit Photographs by Billy Rose Theatre Division / The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts; Mccormick Library of Special Collections / Northwestern University Library The rich legacy of Ira Aldridge,…
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Amanda Aldridge, Teacher and Composer: A Life in Music Journal of Singing January 2010 ISSN: 10867732 Joyce Andrews, Adjunct Instructor of Music Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin Aldridge was a remarkable person who devoted her lifetime to music, enriching the musical culture of Great Britain through her multi-talents as composer (published under the nom de plume…
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How Embracing Your Background Can Empower Your Life: May J. Talks About Her Mixed Race Heritage, Music, and Pursuing Her Dreams. The Huffington Post United Kingdom 2015-07-17 Emma Leverton Achieving a dream career requires determination and drive, and when we look towards success it’s easy to forget that our histories are much more than just…
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A study of how notions of place and race inform the identities and performances of musicians in contemporary Cuba
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Drum Dream Girl: How One Girl’s Courage Changed Music Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2015-03-31 48 pages Hardcover ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102293 eBook ISBN-13/ EAN: 9780544102286 Margarita Engle Rafael López In this picture book bursting with vibrance and rhythm, a girl dreams of playing the drums in 1930s Cuba, when the music-filled island had a taboo against female…
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Joseph Emidy: From slave fiddler to classical violinist BBC News 2015-06-21 Miles Davis, BBC News Online Joseph Emidy led the Truro Philharmonic Orchestra The remarkable life of a former slave who became a pioneer of classical music has been commemorated. The “genius” violinist Joseph Emidy, from West Africa, was enslaved for two long periods of…
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Mystery, and Discovery, on the Trail of a Creole Music Pioneer The New York Times 2015-05-28 Campbell Robertson, Southern correspondent PINEVILLE, La. — Somewhere among the thousands beneath a grassy hill here lies the body of Amédé Ardoin. He was singular in life: one of the greatest accordion players ever to come out of south…
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Tony Williams’ “Wilderness” and Mixed-Race Identity through Jazz Soundscapes and Such: Critical Thoughts on Sonic Subjects 2015-05-27 Shawn M. Higgins University of Connecticut Tony Williams (source: Wikipedia) Why do song writers choose the song titles they do? Perhaps Herbie Hancock’s 1980 track “4 A.M.” was recorded at that exact time – or maybe finished then?…
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Sorry Music Journalists, Drake is Black. Canadaland 2015-04-30 Kyrell Grant Writers need to stop policing his blackness It feels ridiculous to have to say this: Drake is black. Drake, born Aubrey Graham in a city where almost one in ten people are black, is black. Toronto’s greatest civic triumphalist since Jane Jacobs is black. He…
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Visualizing Racial Mixture and Movement: Music, Notation, Illustration J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2015 pages 146-155 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2015.0009 Brigitte Fielder, Assistant Professor of English University of Wisconsin, Madison The archive of nineteenth-century visual culture abounds with illustrations of racial difference reflect anxieties about racial mixture and movement. Race extends beyond…