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Historian Presenting Lecture On Controversial Musician Gets Shut Down And Banned

MUSIC Posted: September 13, 2019 1:02 pm

“Recently I was asked to present a lecture on composer Julius Eastman and his work at the OBEY Convention, a music and sound festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. But rather than a fruitful discussion of Eastman’s probing, piercing minimalist music and legacy as an overlooked composer only now getting his due, the situation turned into a referendum on complicated questions: who gets to hold forth on artists of different identities, and on whose terms?” – ARTnews

MUSIC Published: 09.12.19, sjm

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